From 06984df5cb603ee6942d283c649215cda7c3160f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Stenberg Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2003 14:57:08 +0000 Subject: Make the Content-Length info override the Connection: close header, so that libcurl will stop reading when the number of bytes have arrived and not wait for a closed socket. --- lib/transfer.c | 15 ++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) (limited to 'lib') 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; } -- cgit v1.2.3