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| -rw-r--r-- | lib/transfer.c | 15 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/lib/transfer.c b/lib/transfer.c index f58db35bf..6571e1636 100644 --- a/lib/transfer.c +++ b/lib/transfer.c @@ -457,11 +457,16 @@ CURLcode Curl_readwrite(struct connectdata *conn, */ if(data->set.no_body) stop_reading = TRUE; - else if(!conn->bits.close) { - /* If this is not the last request before a close, we must - set the maximum download size to the size of the - expected document or else, we won't know when to stop - reading! */ + else { + /* If we know the expected size of this document, we set the + maximum download size to the size of the expected + document or else, we won't know when to stop reading! + + Note that we set the download maximum even if we read a + "Connection: close" header, to make sure that + "Content-Length: 0" still prevents us from attempting to + read the (missing) response-body. + */ if(-1 != conn->size) conn->maxdownload = conn->size; } |