On Tue, 25 Jul 2006, Greg Ward wrote: [...] > Where I'm getting hung up is how far to test this stuff.
Stop when you run out of time ;-) > I have > discovered other hypothetical cases of bad chunking that cause httplib > to go into an infinite loop or block forever on socket.readline(). > Should we worry about those cases as well, despite not having seen them > happen in the wild? More annoying, I can reproduce the "block forever" > case using a real socket, but not using the StringIO-based FakeSocket > class in test_httplib. They have been seen in the wild :-) http://python.org/sf/1411097 The IP address referenced isn't under my control, I don't know if it still provokes the error, but the problem is clear. John _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
