Re: [PATCH v6 1/2] http-backend: respect CONTENT_LENGTH as specified by rfc3875

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Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes:

> ... Eventually our fill() will block trying to get data that is
> not there. On an Apache server, the webserver would know there is
> nothing left to send us and close() the pipe, and we'd get EOF.
> But on IIS, I think the pipe remains open and we'd just block
> indefinitely trying to read().

Ah, yeah, under that scenario, trusting content-length and trying to
read, waiting for input that would never come, will be a problem,
and it would probably want to get documented.




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