Re: GNAT.Sockets. Blocking?

["John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid>]

In article 
<158756da-21b7-4e2d-b288-7ba030f1f35c@25g2000yqb.googlegroups.com>,
 "Jacob M. H. Smith" <jacob.m.h.smith@googlemail.com> wrote:

> I'm kind of new to socket programming and I need some help here. I 
> wrote a simple little program that just fetches Google's index page. 
> The posted code works, but only because I used a "Connection: close" 
> header in the HTTP request. How would set up my code responsible for 
> reading the data from the stream so that I can read the page while 
> keeping the connection open? If I remove the header the program seems 
> to stop when calling the Ada.Streams.Read function if there is less 
> than BUFFER_SIZE data in the streams buffer. Can't I just read as 
> much as is available?
[...]

The Google page specifies "Transfer-Encoding: chunked", which must be 
"terminated by closing the connection." To get the whole page, I think  
you'd need to handle the chunk-size:

<http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec3.html#sec3.6>

Your code gets www.example.com correctly, without an explicit 
"Connection: close":

<http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2606.txt>

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