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

[Ivan J. <ijo...@gm...>]

On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 10:39 PM, Dean Michael Berris <mik...@gm...
> wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 1:40 AM, Ivan Johannessen <ijo...@gm...>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 7:01 AM, Dean Michael Berris <
> mik...@gm...>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> That's odd, you don't get a body from the HTTP 200 OK response from
> >> www.google.com?
> >>
> > That is correct.
> >
>
> Whan you say you don't get a body, that means cpp-netlib already throws
> right?
>
> Yes. Sorry for not being clear on this.


> I checked the RFC again and it seems I forgot to support the case
> where the server just streams the contents and closes the connection
> without specifying a transfer-encoding nor a content-length (as
> described by http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec4.html#sec4.4)
> which is an oversight on my part.
>
> Please file an issue at
> http://github.com/mikhailberis/cpp-netlib/issues so I can track the
> fix for it. I don't think it would be hard to fix it but I would like
> to track work done against it so I can "focus". :)
>
> Will do.


> >>
> >> Conforming HTTP 1.1 servers should use an HTTP 204 No Content response
> >> instead if it doesn't intend to send a body. Although an HTTP 200 OK
> >> should have either a "Content-Length" or "Transfer-Encoding: chunked"
> >> last time I checked.
> >>
> >> I'll try to look deeper into this though, thanks for reporting.
> >>
> > Ah, looks like google is not doing the right thing. Thanks for a great
> lib.
> > I'll be using it in a cross platform(Windows/OSX/Linux) app soon.
>
> Cool, you might want to hold off until I fix the bug with the HTTP 1.1
> client implementation. :)
>
> Have a great week ahead and I hope this helps!
>
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> Dean Michael Berris
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