EntityUtils.toString() doesn't detect/report less content being returned than 
was promised
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                 Key: HTTPCORE-235
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HTTPCORE-235
             Project: HttpComponents HttpCore
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: HttpCore
    Affects Versions: 4.0.1
            Reporter: Steve Loughran


Also on my review of EntityUtils.toString(), I see that it's code to take an 
input stream and a content length only uses the content length parameter to set 
the size of the buffer -there is no attempt to verify that the amount of data 
received was as expected and raise an {{IOException}} if less data arrived. 

While this code will appear to work, especially on loopback and local 
connections, it is flawed long-haul where connections are often dropped early. 

I propose streaming the entity content to a byte array, validating the length, 
then building a string in the appropriate charset from the buffer if it is 
valid.



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