On Fri, 06 Dec 2002 11:15:07 -0500, Pete Maclean wrote: > If my analysis is correct, the non-obvious reason is that the client gets > unhappy if it fails to obtain certain tagged responses in single read/recv > chunks. Which effectively means that it expects said responses to be > delivered in single packets. Now it clearly seems a good idea for > efficiency that a server try to arrange things so that a tagged response is > sent as one packet. But surely it cannot be right for a client to expect > that?
It is certainly not right. A client should read a line from the server, where "line" is defined as "arbitrarily long sequence of octets ending with CR LF", unless it is reading a literal, in which case it is reading a precise number of octets without regard to CR LF. A line can certainly be much longer than a packet. What client has the problem?
