Can I send HTTP response before completely read HTTP request?

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For example if user POST large file - exceed size limit or service send wrong header and we don't need to process rest of data and replay with HTTP error code?

UPDATE I finally found that this question had been already asked:

and it is possible but browser implementation are "broken" - doesn't take into account such event.

score 2 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:15

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Copying from the @David Hodgson's answer from the duplicate question here, so that this doesn't look unanswered:

Yes, a server is allowed to do that by the specification.

No, clients don't handle it properly.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:15

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answered Apr 03 '16 at 20:10

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Can I send HTTP response before completely read HTTP request?

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