Packet type http and httph in {inet,ssl}:setopts/2

[Oscar Hellström]

Hi All,

In the documentation in the inet module the last line reads:
"Note that the packet type httph is not needed when reading from a socket."

This isn't quite true if you want to read HTTP Trailers which can be
found after an entity body using the chunked transfer coding. Setting
the option {packet, http} and then reading the following data:
"Trailer-1: 1\r\n\r\n"
Will return {http_error, "Trailer-1: 1\r\n"} instead of {ok,
{http_header, ...}}. I guess that's because the http parser is keeping a
state of some sort. Using the option {packet, httph} however works well
for reading trailer both for the ssl module and gen_tcp / inet. Is there
any possibility to document the use of packet type httph as a valid
option for {inet,ssl}:setopts/2 as well?

Best regards

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