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http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=27366 GetMethod.getResponseBodyAsStream() .available() could return content-length ------- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2004-03-09 08:51 ------- George, Even Gossling can write sub-optimal code. We all know there is some very bad code in the Java Standard API :-) InputStream::available() is clearly documented as "Returns the number of bytes that can be read (or skipped over) from this input stream without blocking by the next caller of a method for this input stream." Not following this contract is one bad thing. The user relying on us to follow a different contract than the original method is even worse. Also the nature of a stream allows for an infinite stream of data. I guess that this was the reason that the Java API provides no way of figuring out the length of a stream. And it is the same reason for us to provide this completely optional piece of information with a supplementary method called getResponseContentLength(). It can even return -1 if the content length is unknown. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
