Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Mon, 22 Sep 2008 05:15:38 -0700 (PDT) | | Subject | Re: Honoring SO_RCVLOWAT in proto_ops.poll methods | | From | David Miller <> |
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2008 21:13:37 +0100
> Thats a gloriously insane way of trying to do HTTP/1.1, and one I'm not
> sure is actually viable in the real world because the TCP window may be
> smaller than the number of bytes required to find a Host: header - so you
> may simply not be able to receive it via MSG_PEEK. In particular mobile
> phone gateways have a nasty habit of using very small windows.
>
> > I just don't see a good solution for what I'm doing other than MSG_PEEK
> > and SO_RCVLOWAT, any ideas?
>
> I don't either, and while I don't agree that what you are doing for
> HTTP/1.1 is remotely sane there are probably other cases this would be
> both sane and useful which does suggest fixing it would be beneficial
I agree and I'll try to move this forward.
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