Re: [cpp-netlib-devel] Assumption about response headers

[Dean M. B. <mik...@gm...>]

Hi Ivan,

On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 12:51 AM, Ivan Johannessen
<ijo...@gm...> wrote:
> Hi Dean,
> I've just downloaded library and built the http_client.cpp sample.

What version did you download?

> Testing
> it out by giving it the URL: http://www.google.com results in a "Missing
> Transfer Encoding" exception. Looking the code in sync_connection_base.hpp I
> see that either a Content-Length or Transfer-Encoding header is required.
> However, the response fromwww.google.com does not contain a message body(I
> assume because the Connection:close header was included in the request),
> thus the presence of either of those headers are optional.  Thoughts?

Actually I would say it's because the client in the HTTP example
doesn't follow directs automatically (IIRC). I need to check this.

The 0.6.1 version has an HTTP client that is HTTP/1.1 compliant and
thus should support already HTTP/1.0 responses from servers. In the
HTTP/1.1 spec, the server's HTTP/1.1 response *should* contain either
a Transfer-Encoding header, or a Content-Length header.

In the case of the example, I don't think it adds the
"follow_redirects" constructor option. I'll dig into it later but can
you check whether the response is an HTTP 200 or an HTTP 302?

Thanks and I hope this helps!

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Dean Michael Berris
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