On Mon, 2025-02-17 at 11:43 +0100, joan.balagu...@ventusproxy.com
wrote:
> Hi Oleg,
>
> We are currently using the blocking client. We know that consuming
> the entire entity body is the way to completely read the response and
> free all related resources with the request/response. Now we have a
> requirement coming from a new api that occasionally can return huge
> responses that should be discarded asap by checking its size. It's a
> chunked response, we don't have a content-length header. So, the idea
> should be:
>
> while (there_are_still_bytes_coming) {
> numbytes += read_bytes()
> if (numbytes > MAX_BYTES_TO_READ) {
> throw exception (max size exceeded")
> }
> }
>
> The point is that using this method we are not consuming the entire
> entity body.
>
> Is there any way to achieve this, or the only valid way is to read
> the entire body and then check the byte array size?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Joan.
Joan,
One can abort the request in order to shut down the underlying
connection but throwing an exception from the response handler is
perfectly valid and is in fact recommended.
Oleg
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