From: Denis Haskin <denis@...>
Date: 2008-12-24T23:10:42+09:00
Subject: Re: Net::HTTPResponse#read_body usable for timing?

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Thanks, Brian -- I was figuring I would probably have to dive into the 
source to look at this, thanks for the roadmap.  I'll probably look at 
it over the holidays for fun ;-)

dwh


Brian Candler wrote:
> Denis Haskin wrote:
>   
>> Does anyone know if read_body is synchronous wrt to the network reads?
>>     
>
> The source will be installed somewhere like 
> /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb - it's all in Ruby and fairly easy to 
> understand. Look for read_body and read_body_0.
>
> However, you can see it relies on some Ruby internals, such as 
> Socket#read calling << on the dest buffer object; see ReadAdapter in 
> net/protocol.rb (*)
>
> [...]


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