2014-04-22 20:19 GMT+02:00 Simo Sorce <simo@redhat.com>:
On Tue, 2014-04-22 at 19:04 +0200, Miloslav Trmač wrote:
> 2014-04-22 15:10 GMT+02:00 Simo Sorce <simo@redhat.com>:
>
> > A good protocol would allow to send a first small
> > packet that establish a connection and a reply that can "push back" on
> > the client w/o requiring huge bandwidth to be spent.
> >
>
> Isn't that an inherent capability of TCP?

Sure, that's one way when bandwidth is the issue. There are other issues
though, and just closing the connection on the client if you do not want
any traffic is a bit blunt. It also does not give the client any idea
when it is ok to retry.

Not like that—just stop reading from the socket, causing the server to advertise a zero-length window to the client.  The client will then know that writes are blocking / not being processed.  And when the server has more capacity, free up the buffers and the kernel will send a window update to the client automatically.
    Mirek