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| author | Sverker Eriksson <[email protected]> | 2011-11-28 15:14:14 +0100 |
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| committer | Sverker Eriksson <[email protected]> | 2011-12-06 11:06:44 +0100 |
| commit | dc5f7190f16cf4552db74fba3f4e0f2d654e2594 (patch) | |
| tree | 6f9b947d7e4bf228cfe40e22dac45add6f9bd6ff /erts/doc/src/erlang.xml | |
| parent | 5984409d1264871cbe61bfec875de53e51713efb (diff) | |
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erts: Remove truncation of http packet parsing and return error instead
This is a slight modification of previous commit by Steve Vinoski
For backward compatibility of old users of decode_packet, I think it's enough
to return error instead of keeping the old line truncation behaviour.
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| -rw-r--r-- | erts/doc/src/erlang.xml | 9 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/erts/doc/src/erlang.xml b/erts/doc/src/erlang.xml index 42a4e6a999..1ea88a185f 100644 --- a/erts/doc/src/erlang.xml +++ b/erts/doc/src/erlang.xml @@ -724,9 +724,12 @@ false</pre> size limit.</p> </item> <tag><c>{line_length, integer()}</c></tag> - <item><p>Applies only to line oriented protocols - (<c>line</c>, <c>http</c>). Lines longer than this - will be truncated.</p> + <item><p>For packet type <c>line</c>, truncate lines longer + than the indicated length.</p> + <p>Option <c>line_length</c> also applies to <c>http*</c> + packet types as an alias for option <c>packet_size</c> in the + case when <c>packet_size</c> itself is not set. This usage is + only intended for backward compatibility.</p> </item> </taglist> <pre> |