[issue6161] httplib: HTTPResponse not storing response body

[Guthur]

Guthur <guthur at hotmail.com> added the comment:

But it must be somewhere, you don't make a seperate request to the 
server for the body, you just make the single HTTP request and the 
server serves that request.

Also this is surely aimed at developers, we can make the decision 
whether or not it is too large, and simply to, by making a HEAD request 
and checking the content-length header, and if its not available then 
don't continue with the request if we chose to take that action.

The point is that with out a body its not a HTTP response.

Admittedly some sort of streaming to file facility might be needed for 
the large requests, and that may require a significant effort to add.

Even if this can not be changed I think it should be clearly stated in 
the documentation that the request body needs to be explicitly read; I 
was trying to access it after making my request but of course it wasn't 
available, but the headers were and all status pointed to the request 
being served, which was rather confusing.

Thanks for the reply

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