Re: [Chicken-users] Hang problem with the http egg.

[Graham Fawcett]

On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 11:22 AM, Robin Lee Powell
<address@hidden> wrote:

>  > Could it be that the body is the string "OK,585562" with no
>  > terminating newline, and read-line hangs on it?
>
>  Possible.
>  > If that's really the issue, you could try using read-lines or
>  > read-all.>
>  But if so, it's still an http egg bug, because http:GET hangs on it
>  too.

The blocking makes sense: if you ask a port to read an indeterminately
long string, it will eventually block until the connection is closed.

Perhaps get the Content-Length header from the response, and
(read-string n) where n is the Content-Length?

Not saying it isn't an http-egg bug, just that the symptom of the
problem seems logical from a network-socket perspective.

Graham


Graham