[Python-Dev] httplib and bad response chunking

[John J Lee]

On Tue, 25 Jul 2006, Greg Ward wrote:
[...]
> Where I'm getting hung up is how far to test this stuff.

Stop when you run out of time ;-)

> I have
> discovered other hypothetical cases of bad chunking that cause httplib
> to go into an infinite loop or block forever on socket.readline().
> Should we worry about those cases as well, despite not having seen them
> happen in the wild?  More annoying, I can reproduce the "block forever"
> case using a real socket, but not using the StringIO-based FakeSocket
> class in test_httplib.

They have been seen in the wild :-)

http://python.org/sf/1411097


The IP address referenced isn't under my control, I don't know if it still 
provokes the error, but the problem is clear.


John