Gisle Aas writes:
> Bob Fillmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Why doesn't LWP do this already? (use the Content-Length header if
> > found)
>
> Basically just because the current approach of reading data until EOF
> has worked nicely so far. The new HTTP/1.1 code (in libwww-perl-5.53_94)
> will look at the Content-Length so it should not have this problem.
however, i remember having trouble with some sites not reporting the
#bytes correctly (giving EOF before the promised #bytes).
>
> Regards,
> Gisle
