[erlang-questions] Re: http or httpc?

[zabrane Mikael]

Exactly what I noticed Per.
ibrowse will doi the job for me now.

Thanks again for the hints guys ...


2010/5/1 Per Melin <per.melin@REDACTED>

> On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 1:55 PM, zabrane Mikael <zabrane3@REDACTED>
> wrote:
> > I'll give httpc a try.
>
> Be warned that in R13B4 there seems to be a potentially serious bug in
> httpc.
>
> For each request you make the ETS table httpc_manager__handler_db will
> grow with one entry, indefinitely. With enough requests over time that
> can of course consume all memory and crash the node.
>
> 1> inets:start().
> ok
> 2> [ http:request("http://127.0.0.1/") || _ <- lists:seq(1,10000) ], ok.
> ok
> 3> ets:info(httpc_manager__handler_db, size).
> 10000
>
> And R13B4 is not the first OTP version where the http client has
> serious issues. I've learned to stay away from it when I can.
>