libsoup-2

Wed Feb 18 13:29:26 PST 2004

I am trying to use libsoup-2.1.5 on:

FreeBSD kirin 5.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.2-RELEASE #1: Mon Jan 26 11:12:57 PST 2004    root at kirin:/usr/src/sys/alpha/compile/MYKERN  alpha

The simple test program "get" fails with the message:

: 7 Connection terminated unexpectedly

The actual problem is much different. It appears that g_io_channel_read_chars() which I believe is just calling read() on the socket descriptor, is returning results with extraneous data. For instance
get http://www.ximian.com should return something like:

: 200 OK

  <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
      <html>

but instead I get:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK

Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 21:01:27 GMT

Server: Apache/2.0.45 (Red Hat Linux)

X-Powered-By: PHP/4.3.2

X-Accelerated-By: PHPA/1.3.3r2

Connection: close

Transfer-Encoding: chunked

Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8

1

3

2

4001

  <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
      <html>

These extra characters mess up read_metadata() because SOUP_MESSAGE_IO_DOUBLE_EOL is never found, and the read eventually reads till EOF and the connection terminates unexpectedly.

I have glib-2.2.3_1 on my system.

Tesing libsoup-2 using "get" on linux ppc and Solaris both work correctly.

Is anybody else seeing this, or better yet any clues on how to fix this would be great.

Randy