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You could still do that if the length was pre-announced, or am I missing something?
by felixge2 16y ago
You could still do that if the length was pre-announced, or am I missing something?
- stingraycharles 16y agoEhrm, yes, you're correct, I wasn't fully awake yet. I apologize.
- irrelative 16y agoYeah, you could -- I wonder what would happen if the client gets it wrong or is deliberately dishonest? Not trusting the client is a big part of writing an open server and this seems like you would have to trust the client in a big way.
- felixge2 16y agoWell, it's not a big problem - you should have a timeout on incoming connections, and node is pretty well-suited for having lots of "hanging" connections (I ran some test with 56k active connections). If a connection is closed, either by a timeout, or EOF, you simply check if the promised content length matches the count of received bytes - if not you should probably discard the whole thing (unless you're specifically supporting broken clients).