SIGPIPE in kio_http

[Dawit A.]

On Tuesday 30 July 2002 14:57, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> On Tuesday 30 July 2002 01:26 am, Stephan Kulow wrote:
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> > Hi!
> >
> > Since quite some time I get more "Connection to host is broken"
> > than I used to when I fill forms. It seems to me that the slave requests
> > the server to leave the connection alive, but can't handle the fact that
> > the server closes it after some time. When I need some time to fill out
> > the form, I get the error message and can nothing but go back and
> > resubmit til it works.
> >
> > To me it seems, the http slave should handle the fact that sendBody
> > gets a EPIPE in write in reopening the connection and not simply giving
> > an error to the user. But I have no idea how to fix that best in http.cc
> > or slavebase
>
> Remarkable. We aren't suppoed to use persistent connections at all for
> anything but GET requests.
>
> *check*
>
> Oh.. I see.. the check is done _after_ the request, instead of before the
> request. *duh*
>
> Does this patch help?

Even if it does not, that is the "correct" thing to do anyways. You should go 
ahead and commit it just the same.

Regards,
Dawit A.