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

[Tony Rogvall]

Note that setting the recbuf not only updates the inet driver read buffer but also
the sets the SO_RCVBUF socket option. This is not always what you want!!!
First consult the networking documentation on TCP and buffer management to
see if this will result in unwanted behavior.

If you do not know exactly what recbuf does you may instead use the option
{buffer, Size} which only affects the inet driver read buffer

/Tony


On 11 mar 2010, at 04.43, Steve Vinoski wrote:

> 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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