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

Christian S chsu79@REDACTED
Thu Mar 27 19:45:09 CET 2008


Thanks Matthias. This will do!

On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 7:29 PM, Matthias Lang <matthias@REDACTED> wrote:
> Christian S writes:
>   > Typically, one use the http packet to get the Content-Length and then
>   > proceed to {packet, raw} and read that number of bytes.
>   >
>   > But how should one handle a request that comes in with an unknown
>   > length such as a chunk encoded entity?
>
>  From memory: you read a {packet, line} to get the chunk size, and
>  then you can switch to {packet, raw}.
>
>  You should read RFC 2068 section 3.6. It's not that bad.



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