[Chicken-users] Should http-client automatically consume unconsumed input? [Was: Re: ssax examples could not run]

[Peter Bex]

Hi again,

Also, about this piece of code:

> (pp (call-with-input-request
>      "http://modis.ispras.ru/Lizorkin/XML/poem.xml";
>      #f (lambda (p)
>           (let ((sxml (ssax:xml->sxml p '())))
>             ;; Consume the rest of the stream, ssax does not
>             ;; fully read until the end.
>             (read-string #f p)
>             sxml))))

Does it make sense to have http-client automatically consume any
remaining data after the user-supplied reader returns?
What about continuations?  Or perhaps it should be read when the
*next* request is done?

Thoughts? Opinions?

Cheers,
Peter
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