aboutsummaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/lib/transfer.c
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/transfer.c')
-rw-r--r--lib/transfer.c15
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;
}