[erlang-questions] how: Chunked input encoding with {packet, http}

[Matthias Lang]

Christian S writes:

 > Did you learn about any curiousities, known broken implementations
 > and such?

I think most implementations these days are OK

Historically, chunked encoding has been a fine source of
brokenness. Inets, YAWS and even iBrowse have had bugfixes related to
chunked.

If you ask google "chunked bug", it looks like just about every piece
of software ever written got chunked encoding wrong first try. Apache
had a likely remote exploit on windows, the debian update tool was
broken, squid, ... it's a who's who of HTTP software.

I think I'll go off and read some Erik Naggum now.

Matt

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http://httpd.apache.org/info/security_bulletin_20020617.txt