AnyEvent::HTTP handling invalid chunked response

[Marc Lehmann]

On Sat, May 30, 2015 at 09:31:06PM +0200, ambrus <ambrus at math.bme.hu> wrote:
> Thank you, I believe that's a good partial solution.  That will make the
> HTTP request give an error if the server sends junk instead of the chunk
> size, or if the response header is unreasonably long.

I'd say thats what you want?

> But it will also make the request give an error if a very large chunk is
> read.  If the HTTP server sends a very large chunk, I think AnyEvent::HTTP
> shouldn't die, but instead read it in reasonably sized units, and call the
> body callback after each unit.  Is this possible?

Possibly, but unlikely to be implemented anytime soon, especially since
the on_body callback is optional, so it has to work without it as well.

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