[erlang-questions] 8k limit on gen_tcp:recv?

[Steve Vinoski]

Try setting your socket's receive buffer to something larger than 8k
before you do the recv:

inet:setopts(Socket, [{recbuf,16384}]).

By passing a 0 for the length to recv, you're telling it to receive
all available bytes. I assume it can't receive more bytes than its
buffer can store.

--steve

On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 6:48 PM, Bob Ippolito <bob@REDACTED> wrote:
> Since this is definitely not clear in the question, the code would
> look something like this:
>
>    inet:setopts(Socket, [{packet, http}]),
>    case gen_tcp:recv(Socket, 0, ?IDLE_TIMEOUT) of
>        {ok, {http_request, Method, Path, Version}} ->
>            headers(Socket, {Method, Path, Version}, [], Body, 0)
>    end.
>
> Rachel - how about providing a reproducible test case and making it an
> issue in the mochiweb project? There might be some continuation
> response from recv that mochiweb doesn't currently expect to receive.
>
> http://code.google.com/p/mochiweb/issues/entry
>
> On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 3:40 PM, Rachel Willmer <rwillmer@REDACTED> wrote:
>> I've been debugging a problem whereby couchdb rejects a URL longer than 8k.
>>
>> At first, I thought it was an already known limitation in mochiweb
>> (the stack is couchdb/mochiweb/erlang).
>>
>> But with large amounts of ioformat debugging, I've pinned it down to a
>> call from mochiweb to gen_tcp:recv which fails on this long URL.
>>
>> Is this a known limitation in erlang's gen_tcp:recv?
>>
>> Rachel
>>
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