[Themis-dev] Latest HTTP changes

[Raymond R. <ra...@ba...>]

Hi all,
  I just want to take a moment to report on my latest tweak(s) to the 
HTTP add-on. Mark has mentioned on a couple of occasions that the 
broadcasts that the HTML parser sometimes receives doesn't contain the 
content's MIME type, in particular when loading the page a second time 
within any particular Themis session. Due to the nature of the issue, he 
thought it might be an issue with the cache system and asked me to 
investigate it.

  You'll probably guess correctly, because of the email subject, that 
the problem was actually in HTTP. Basically, the HTTP add-on was only 
adding the mime type to the broadcasts when the page wasn't found in 
cache or the server returned an updated version of the content. (A 200 
level HTTP response rather than a 304 Not Modified response.) I think I 
deliberately did this, years ago, because the content type must not have 
changed if the server is returning a not modified response. Nonetheless, 
I didn't foresee that this would add further complications to other 
parts of the app, even though it would be possible to obtain the 
appropriate information directly from the cache system. So, I'm now 
including the MIME type in just about all "loading progress" broadcasts 
from HTTP, which should get the HTML parser working properly. My 
apologies for earlier my earlier weirdness... ;-)

Raymond

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