[issue6161] httplib: HTTPResponse not storing response body
Guthur
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Mon Jun 1 20:23:55 CEST 2009
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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