[erlang-questions] gen_tcp and large HTTP headers

[Sverker Eriksson]

The bug is causing http lines to get truncated when the inet_drv 
in-buffer gets full.

It would be nicer to dynamically expand the in-buffer and let 
inet:setopts option {packet_size, MaxSize} be used to protect against 
DoS attacks as it can for other packet types.**

Steve Vinoski wrote:

> Looking at the packet parser, I'm thinking it always treats this case
> as HTTP version 0.9, so that's wrong as well.
>

What's wrong? I didn't understand that.

/Sverker, Erlang/OTP


Paolo Negri wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> Thanks for discussing this, we encountered the problem on our system
> and filed the bug that originated Roberto's email [1].
> We're currently working around the problem by setting recbuf on the
> socket, this temporary solution is not too bad in real life if the
> need is only to cope with requests originated by browsers as currently
> fairly popular ones can't handle over 2048 characters [2].
> While this is suitable as a temporary solution it really feels like
> the current implementation of inet is incorrect as it states "The
> packets are returned with the format according to HttpPacket described
> in erlang:decode_packet/3" [3] and instead the results are different
> from those one would get by calling erlang:decode_packet/3
>
> [1] https://github.com/ostinelli/misultin/issues/40
> [2] http://support.microsoft.com/kb/208427
> [3] http://www.erlang.org/doc/man/inet.html#setopts-2
>
> Thanks,
>
> Paolo
>
> On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 7:59 AM, ERLANG <erlangy@REDACTED> wrote:
>   
>> Hi Steve, Roberto,
>>
>> Maybe the Erlang team should consider and fix that problem
>> on next releases!
>>
>> /Zab
>>     
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