Re: HTTPURLConnection.connect() buffers its entire input.

[David Daney]

Chris Burdess wrote:
> David Daney wrote:
>
> > That is all well and good, however it seems to me that the primary 
> > responsibility of the core implementation of HTTP in classpath is to 
> > provide the same level of support that Sun's implementation has.
>
>
> It does have the same support, and more. It just does things slightly 
> differently. There isn't anything in the specification of 
> HttpURLConnection that states that it supports resources of arbitrary 
> length.

See:
http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/standards.html

Section 4.1.  Section 3.1 does not specifically mention Sun's java 
runtime, but it could be implied for a project who's express goal is to 
replace it.
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> > A secondary consideration would be to have hooks so that other 
> > proprietary libraries could hook into it to add enhanced non-standard 
> > features.
>
>
> What kind of thing are you imagining?

libinet.

> I am not a big fan of proprietary 
> libraries and non-standard features in general.

David Daney