[erlang-bugs] gen_tcp/new_ssl http packet inconsistency when reading malformed header

[Jonas Boberg]

Ingela Anderton Andin wrote:
> Maybe I spoke to early. I according to the documentation:
> "A socket in passive mode will return {ok, HttpPacket} from gen_tcp:recv"
> ...
> So ssl does acctualy return what the documentation says it should.

Yes, actually dialyzer even gives a warning for this code in R13B04:

case gen_tcp:recv(Socket, 0, 1000) of
    %% dialyzer gives a warning for the following line, but its "correct" in R13B
    {error, {http_error, _Str}} ->
        ...
end

If it's not possible to change the gen_tcp behaviour, I guess the documentation
and type specs should be updated.

/Jonas
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