Re: [Chicken-users] http-client doesn't handle closed persistent connections

[Peter Bex]

On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 09:57:47PM +0900, Daishi Kato wrote:
> > A test case would be welcome.
> 
> Here is how to reproduce the problem.
> 
> #;2> (string-length (with-input-from-request "http://www.apache.org/"; #f 
> read-string))
> 44138
> 
> This apache server is probably configured to keep connections for 5sec.
> The unofficial keep-alive header says so.
> I could confirm that the connection is closed after 5sec by netstat.

Excellent!  Thank you for this test case.  It appears to be very simple;
when the remote end drops the connection, the input port is _not_
automatically closed.  Reading from it returns #!eof though, so I now
added a peek-char call to the connection status check, which seems to
fix the problem.

Could you (and Thomas, too) try http-client trunk and let me know if
everything is working out now?  I'll make a new release if it works now.

Cheers,
Peter
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