Re: [RFC][NSE] Incomplete HTTP response body

nnposter,

On further review, this patch looks good. I would be happy with it as-is,
but here are my comments on your questions:

it would be trivial to store the
> fragment in the "body" member.
>

I don't think this is necessary, and would require more extensive checking
of existing scripts to make sure they aren't relying on some aspect of the
"error" body=nil condition.


> * The body fragment does process chunked encoding. It concatenates all
> processed chunks up to the point of failure.
>

This makes sense, I don't see a reason for it to be the other way. If a
script cares about chunks as separate entities, then it probably doesn't
want the higher-level http.lua library anyway.


>
> * The patch does not try to preserve received headers or the status
> line, only the body itself. This functionality could be added. (If yes,
> then the follow-up topic would be how to store them in the response
> object. My proposal would be to repurpose "fragment" to contain an
> incomplete response object, i.e. the headers or the body would be in
> resp.fragment.header and resp.fragment.body, respectively.)
>

I don't think we need to do this now, but if you copy and paste this
suggestion into a comment at the place where the code would have to go, it
will leave a clue as to a smart way to go about it if someone finds the
need to do so in the future.

Dan

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