[cp-patches] Re: Oddity in http Headers

[Chris Burdess]

Tom Tromey wrote:
> What is going on here is that the server returns a header line that
> only has \n for a terminator -- not the required \r\n.  While this is
> wrong, it is better IMO to be lenient in what we accept.  (This same
> applet works fine with the JDK.)
>
> The appended patch is kind of a hack around this.  I was wondering
> what assumptions were intended for LineInputStream and its users.  For
> instance, would it be better for the users to assume that
> LineInputStream strips the \r as well?

It would definitely be preferable to hack Headers rather than 
LineInputStream here: it would make LineInputStream much more complex 
and it has many more dependencies (in inetlib at least).
--
Chris Burdess