Re: GNAT.Sockets. Blocking?

[Pascal Obry <pascal@obry.net>]

Jacob,

Not so simple. It all depends on the headers sent back for the web page
your are requesting. If you have a size you need to read the exact
number of bytes. If you have not the size and you have a chunked
transfer encoding you need to read each chunk (see RFC for format) and
catenate the result.

So to keep the connection open you of course do not want to send the
"Connection: close" header. But in this case you must obey the server
headers values.

A good way to learn all this is to read the RFC and the AWS code which
handles all those cases.

Pascal.

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