> Could you create a JIRA ticket? https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IVY-979
On Mon, 2008-11-24 at 14:49 -0800, Maarten Coene wrote: > I don't know if it will be easy to support such a thing because the > URLInfo.getContentLength() might be used in different places. > We should investigate this further to see if Ivy could deal with an unknown > content-length. > Could you create a JIRA ticket? > > Maarten > > > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: Jeffrey Sinclair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Monday, November 24, 2008 11:14:20 PM > Subject: URLResolver's dependency on URLConnection.getContentLength() > > I've been trying to use the URLResolver with a custom protocol that > returns -1 for URLConnection.getContentLength(). The problem I'm seeing > is that for my custom protocol, resources can never be found. > > After a little debugging I found the following code in > org.apache.ivy.util.url.BasicURLHandler.getURLInfo() which explains why > I'm running into issues: > > > public URLInfo getURLInfo(URL url, int timeout) { > > ... > if (con instanceof HttpURLConnection) { > ... > } else { > > int contentLength = con.getContentLength(); > > if (contentLength <= 0) { > > return UNAVAILABLE; > > } else { > > ... > } > > } > > } > > Is this a bug in the URLResolver? For certain resources which are > streamed, the content length will not be known so I'm not sure that > UNAVAILABLE should be dependent on the content length. > > Regards, > > Jeff > > >
