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Re: Program hanging on recv()

From	Jasen Betts <jasen@xnet.co.nz>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.development.apps
Subject	Re: Program hanging on recv()
Date	2013-02-04 11:10 +0000
Organization	Dis (not Dat) Organisation
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On 2013-02-03, Ramon <ramif_47.invalid@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> What I'm actually doing is just downloading an XML page to memory using 
> the HTTP protocol. (e.g. http://weather.yahooapis.com/forecastrss?w=2502265)

HTTP version 1.1 should always indoicate the size, either explicitly
or by using chunked transmission.

> The actual problem is that I do not know the size of that XML file 
> beforehand.

You're not using libxml2 by any chance? Did you know it contained a
http client?

> *Question*:  Is it possible to know the size of the page to download 
> beforehand?  

HTTP1.1

> Or is then any other way how I can solve the recv() hanging issue?

EOF should be signalled somehow, I'd cheat and use wireshark to look at
what hppens when firefox does the same request.

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Program hanging on recv() Ramon <ramif_47.invalid@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-02-03 19:18 +0100
  Re: Program hanging on recv() Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2013-02-03 21:38 +0000
    Re: Program hanging on recv() Ramon <ramif_47.invalid@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-02-03 23:05 +0100
      Re: Program hanging on recv() Lew Pitcher <lpitcher@teksavvy.com> - 2013-02-03 17:50 -0500
      Re: Program hanging on recv() Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2013-02-03 23:16 +0000
      Re: Program hanging on recv() Jasen Betts <jasen@xnet.co.nz> - 2013-02-04 11:10 +0000
        Re: Program hanging on recv() Ramon <ramif_47.invalid@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-02-04 21:21 +0100
      Re: Program hanging on recv() Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@mssgmbh.com> - 2013-02-04 19:43 +0000

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