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Oemer Yildiz - 27 Jan 2005 18:00 GMT

Hi,

how does GetResponse() act (request-method is GET!), when the
Content-Length of the HTTP-Response is -1, i.e. unlimited? Using a
Packet-Sniffer i found out, that it returns after having received the
HTTP-header and a few packets from the data-stream. However, i'd like
to know the method's "documented" behaviour which i could not find on
its documentation page.

Thanks in advance!

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Nicole Schenk - 28 Jan 2005 03:37 GMT

> Hi,
>
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> Thanks in advance!

I would look into http://www.w3c.org, they may have the http standard.

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Joerg Jooss - 29 Jan 2005 08:30 GMT

> Hi,
>
> how does GetResponse() act (request-method is GET!), when the
> Content-Length of the HTTP-Response is -1, i.e. unlimited?

-1 does not mean unlimited -- there's no such thing as an unlimited
response size. It means "undefined". You may see this value for a
number of reasons, such as

-- The response has no body (like any request for a HEAD request)
-- The response was sent using Transfer-Encoding: chunked
-- The response included a Connection: close header

> Using a
> Packet-Sniffer i found out, that it returns after having received the
> HTTP-header and a few packets from the data-stream. However, i'd like
> to know the method's "documented" behaviour which i could not find on
> its documentation page.

It will do just what needs to be done according to the HTTP 1.1
protocol. Do you have a specific problem?

Cheers,

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