[erlang-questions] Are you using {packet, http} ?

[chamila piyasena]

Hi,
When we receive a http response what is the  format of  the body of the
responce(i.e : the html content)?
Is it like ,
 {ok,  http_response, { body, ...........}}


Cheers,
Chamila

On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 7:50 PM, Sverker Eriksson <sverker@REDACTED>
wrote:

> A message from the OTP team:
>
> There is an undocumented socket packet mode that provides HTTP parsing.
> We are planning to make this packet mode official and possibly also
> change the format of the tuples returned in this mode. One current big
> user is the web server Yaws. We would like to know of other applications
> using this HTTP mode and what kind of impact such an incompatible change
> would have.
>
> A socket using {packet, http} returns tuples like this in *passive* mode:
>
> {ok, {http_request, ...}}
> {ok, {http_response, ...}}
> {ok, {http_header, ...}}
>
>
> and tuples like this in *active* mode:
>
> {http_request, Socket, ...}
> {http_response, Socket, ...}
> {http_header, Socket, ...}
>
>
> The proposed change would only affect the active mode like this:
>
> {http, Socket, {http_request, ...}}
> {http, Socket, {http_response, ...}}
> {http, Socket, {http_header, ...}}
>
>
> The purpose is to make the inner tuples look the same regardless of how
> they were received. This would simplify both the implementation and the
> documentation as well as any applications using both receive modes.
> Applications only using http in passive mode (like Yaws) will not be
> affected.
>
> Am I stirring up any worried http-users out there?
>
> /Sverker, Erlang/OTP Ericsson
>
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