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Re: re-using old HTTP connection causes empty reply

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 14:01:53 +0200 (CEST)

On Mon, 12 May 2003, Dan Halbert wrote:

> I am not sure this is a libcurl problem per se, but may be a network,
> socket, or perhaps webserver problem.
>
> This is a case where trying to reuse an old connection causes an "empty
> reply" instead of an I/O error. Have any of you seen this before?

I have not. I think it looks very odd, as even when doing the second request,
it doesn't discover anything strange.

If the second request returns no data at all, that too is supposed to cause
libcurl to return an error, since all requests to a HTTP server should cause
*some* data to be returned from the server.

> On the client: libcurl 7.10.1 on Redhat 7.2,

Can you try upgrading to a later version and see if you can repeat this
problem?

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Received on 2003-05-13