Hi Ilya, thanks for the report. I filed a bug for it and will get back to you when I am back from vacation. You can track the progress at:
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1833446&group_id=50884&atid=461322 Niels. On Nov 15, 2007 9:49 AM, Ilya Martynov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > It seems that libevent incorrectly handles case when HTTP server wants > to send HTTP response with empty content. The problem is that libevent > doesn't generate Content-Length header in this case what causes HTTP1.1 > clients to hang until it timeouts. The problem seems to be in the code > in evhttp_make_header_response(). > > Basically it looks like: > > static void > evhttp_make_header_response(struct evhttp_connection *evcon, > struct evhttp_request *req) > { > ... > if (EVBUFFER_LENGTH(req->output_buffer)) { > ... > code to generate headers Data, Content-Type and > Content-Length if they are not present already > ... > } > ... > } > > This looks wrong maybe except for Content-Type header. Why doesn't it > generates these headers if buffer length is 0? Missing Date header is > not critical but missing Content-Length header definitely breaks HTTP > clients. > > -- > Ilya Martynov, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > CTO IPonWEB (UK) Ltd > _______________________________________________ > Libevent-users mailing list > Libevent-users@monkey.org > http://monkeymail.org/mailman/listinfo/libevent-users > > _______________________________________________ Libevent-users mailing list Libevent-users@monkey.org http://monkeymail.org/mailman/listinfo/libevent-users
