Antoine Pitrou added the comment: > The patch is probably trivial - however I would still like some > verification. > Would it be correct to call self.close() when fp.read returns ''? In > case self.length is not present, I don't see a way around this anyway. > When it is present, and fp.read returns '', how should we go about > that? We can either return less data, or raise an exception to > indicate that the connection terminated prematurely.
It's probably better to return less data. No need to break user programs when they download from a slightly misbehaved Web site. The patch should include some kind of unit test, if possible. See Lib/test/test_httplib.py. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue16298> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
