Re: [Chicken-users] http-client doesn't handle closed persistent connections

[Peter Bex]

On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 11:57:27PM +0900, Daishi Kato wrote:
> After a quick look in the code, one suspect is that port-closed?
> can't check a closed port, but not really sure.

If that's the case, it's a bug in Chicken because http-client simply
used the definition from library.scm, and provides its own copy if we're
on an older Chicken that doesn't provide this procedure.

> Or, it doesn't raise an exception when it detects closed connection.
> I'll work more tomorrow and try to make a test case,
> but let me know if you already know this issue.

I have observed "weird' behaviours on closed connections before,
but always in error cases only, and I wasn't able to debug that,
so I'm not sure if that's the same issue you're reporting.

A test case would be welcome.

Cheers,
Peter
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