| Subject: | does not check whether the entity is complete |
| Date: | Fri, 8 Jul 2011 03:28:59 +0200 |
| To: | bug-libwww-perl [...] rt.cpan.org |
| From: | Florian Zumbiehl <florz [...] florz.de> |
Hi,
libwww does apparently not check whether the received entity body
is complete. I only checked this using the simple get() with a
chunked-encoded response where I let the sender close the connection
prematurely, using version 5.836-1 from debian squeeze, and didn't dig
into the code, so no clue what exactly is happening. get() gave me
back the beginning of the body.
I would expect get() to either give me the complete entity body that's
named by the URI specified or undef if that's impossible to do, for
whatever reason. Just giving back something else than what has been
requested is pretty bad, with the exception maybe of responses that
use Connection: close to delimit the end of the body, as there is no
way to determine whether the body is complete in that case.
Oh, and if you want me to read anything you write here, please send
it to me directly by mail, experience shows that the bug tracker
doesn't take care of that automatically.
Florian