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Re: [MMUSIC] RTSP: Connectionless vs. connection-based



Hi Philippe,

I agree with you that a session must remove inactive sessions. However 
as long as the client shows life signs at least once every timeout 
interval (normally 60 seconds) the session is alive. And as long as the 
client shows signs of life the server has no reason for closing the 
connection.

I will further clarify what I guess you misunderstood about teardown. 
The server should not close a TCP connection as a response to the RTSP 
teardown request for that session. The client might want to set up a new 
session without spending unnecessary RTT on TCP connections. If the 
client is through communicating with the server it should send a TCP close.

Was there something else I was unclear about?

Regards

Magnus

philippe.gentric@philips.com wrote:

>
>but a server *has* to garbage collect inactive sessions, otherwise it would be a sitting duck for DOSA !
>
>
>
>Hi Jonathan,
>
>I had the following sentence in my previous letter which shows my view
>on the issue.
>
>"The server should never close a connection unless the session times
>out, even not after teardown of the session."
>
>So my answer to your question is NO, the server shall not close the
>connection. The connection was initiated by the client, so it is the
>clients to control and decide about. The only two reasons for the server
>to close a connection is a serious server internal error that can't be
>recovered from and when the server is taken off line and redirect has
>been issued in sufficient time before this event.
>
>Regards
>
>Magnus
>
>Jonathan Sergent wrote:
>
 

Magnus Westerlund 

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