From: Nobuyoshi Nakada <nobu@...>
Date: 2009-04-13T20:19:32+09:00
Subject: Re: Potential bug in Net::HTTP, and tentative patch

Hi,

At Mon, 13 Apr 2009 12:40:32 +0900,
Yves-Eric Martin wrote in [ruby-talk:333704]:
> In http.rb, line 2236 the "read_chunked" function calls
> @socket.readline. This "readline" function, in protocol.rb line 126,
> calls readuntil("\n"). This works fine if the data chunk is
> "\n-terminated", but throws an EOFError if it is not.

Not "\n-terminated".

According to RFC2616 and RFC2068, chunks consist from
chunk-size and chunk-body, and the chunked-body is terminated
by "0" size chunk.

That is, the response doesn't seem to follow the RFCs.

-- 
Nobu Nakada