Re: Need help debugging mochiweb/Safari HTTP problems

On 25.07.2008, at 03:18, Damien Katz wrote:
> Looks like I found a fix for the bug, though I'm not 100% sure what  
> the actual bug is. The fix was to change mochiweb to send the HTTP  
> chunk in a single gen_tcp:send/2 call. Previously it sent the length  
> in one call, then the data followed by data in another call.
>
> My theory of the bug is the Safari HTTP client is getting the  
> chunked end marker in 2 packets.  It gets the 0 length + CRLF line  
> in a one packet and when it asks for the CRLF in the next packet its  
> not there yet, so it just skips it (for reasons yet unknown). But  
> the CRLF is still coming, and then when the client goes ahead and  
> makes the next request and tries to get the next response and it  
> instead gets that previous CRLF it had skipped. Because it gets a  
> weird unexpected response, it retries the request.
>
> This fix is to put the whole chunk in one gen_tcp:send/2 call, which  
> I think forces it into a single TCP packet and therefore CRLF is  
> always available immediately. The fix is simple and I think it also  
> be more efficient for most use cases. However I think there might  
> still be a flaw in Safari here that could bite. I also think the  
> idempotence work for document creation is still necessary.
>
> I want to take this fix along with the recent replication and  
> compaction bug fixes and create a 0.8.1.

So this is a patch to the mochiweb source, right? Like this:

Index: src/mochiweb/mochiweb_response.erl
===================================================================
--- src/mochiweb/mochiweb_response.erl  (revision 678916)
+++ src/mochiweb/mochiweb_response.erl  (working copy)
@@ -50,8 +50,7 @@
     case Request:get(version) of
         Version when Version >= {1, 1} ->
             Length = iolist_size(Data),
-            send(io_lib:format("~.16b\r\n", [Length])),
-            send([Data, <<"\r\n">>]);
+            send([io_lib:format("~.16b\r\n", [Length]), Data, <<"\r 
\n">>]);
         _ ->
             send(Data)
     end.

?

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