The server may impose a timeout of the order of 15 seconds on inactivity. Error responses are supplied in human readable text in HTML syntax. There is no way to distinguish an error response from a satisfactory response except for the content of the text. The TCP-IP connection is broken by the server when the whole document has been transferred. The client may abort the transfer by breaking the connection before this, in which case the server shall not record any error condition.
Requests are idempotent .
The server need not store any information about the request after disconnection.