[Libevent-users] evhttp changes for large requests

[Adrian Chadd]

On Sun, Mar 30, 2008, Niels Provos wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 8:53 PM, Adrian Chadd <adrian at creative.net.au> wrote:
> >  I'm interested in these sort of changes making it into the libevent http
> >  code. Flow control and connection aborting are important for handling
> >  HTTP cases that stuff like Squid handles.
> 
> I have started looking at them, but they still need some work.   In
> particular, before they can be integrated, we need a test for the http
> chunking code which is still missing.   There are a couple of corner
> cases that need to be tested first, before looking at connection
> aborting makes sense.

Ok.

> So, perhaps if you have time, you could write a test case for http
> chunking?  In particular, including cases, where the server or the
> client prematurely closes the connection.

Sure. What should the behaviour be, and I'll code up some tests.



Adrian