Perfect Oleg, Thanks. -----Original Message----- From: Oleg Kalnichevski <ol...@apache.org> Sent: Monday, February 17, 2025 5:56 PM To: HttpClient User Discussion <httpclient-users@hc.apache.org> Subject: Re: Question about consuming the entity body
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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: httpclient-users-unsubscr...@hc.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: httpclient-users-h...@hc.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: httpclient-users-unsubscr...@hc.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: httpclient-users-h...@hc.apache.org