inets: Robust handling of 204, 304, 1xx responses

All 1xx (informational), 204 (no content), and 304 (not modified)
responses MUST NOT include a message-body, and thus are always
terminated by the first empty line after the header fields.
This implies that chunked encoding MUST NOT be used for these
status codes.

This commit updates the client to gracefully handle responses from
faulty server implementations that can send chunked encoded 204,
304 or 1xx responses.

Change-Id: I2dd502e28b3c6e121640083118fa5c3e479f5194

1 files changed, 55 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/lib/inets/test/httpc_SUITE.erl b/lib/inets/test/httpc_SUITE.erl
index d723fd0460..f3898e1b74 100644
--- a/lib/inets/test/httpc_SUITE.erl
+++ b/lib/inets/test/httpc_SUITE.erl
@@ -157,7 +157,8 @@ misc() ->
     [
      server_does_not_exist,
      timeout_memory_leak,
-     wait_for_whole_response
+     wait_for_whole_response,
+     post_204_chunked
     ].
 
 %%--------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -1243,6 +1244,59 @@ wait_for_whole_response(Config) when is_list(Config) ->
      ReqSeqNumServer ! shutdown.
 
 %%--------------------------------------------------------------------
+post_204_chunked() ->
+    [{doc,"Test that chunked encoded 204 responses do not freeze the http client"}].
+post_204_chunked(_Config) ->
+    Msg = "HTTP/1.1 204 No Content\r\n" ++
+        "Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2018 13:36:29 GMT\r\n" ++
+        "Content-Type: text/html\r\n" ++
+        "Server: inets/6.5.2.3\r\n" ++
+        "Cache-Control: no-cache\r\n" ++
+        "Pragma: no-cache\r\n" ++
+        "Expires: Fri, 24 Aug 2018 07:49:35 GMT\r\n" ++
+        "Transfer-Encoding: chunked\r\n" ++
+        "\r\n",
+    Chunk = "0\r\n\r\n",
+
+    {ok, ListenSocket} = gen_tcp:listen(0, [{active,once}, binary]),
+    {ok,{_,Port}} = inet:sockname(ListenSocket),
+    spawn(fun () -> custom_server(Msg, Chunk, ListenSocket) end),
+
+    {ok,Host} = inet:gethostname(),
+    End = "/cgi-bin/erl/httpd_example:post_204",
+    URL = ?URL_START ++ Host ++ ":" ++ integer_to_list(Port) ++ End,
+    {ok, _} = httpc:request(post, {URL, [], "text/html", []}, [], []),
+    timer:sleep(500),
+    %% Second request times out in the faulty case.
+    {ok, _} = httpc:request(post, {URL, [], "text/html", []}, [], []).
+
+custom_server(Msg, Chunk, ListenSocket) ->
+    {ok, Accept} = gen_tcp:accept(ListenSocket),
+    receive_packet(),
+    send_response(Msg, Chunk, Accept),
+    custom_server_loop(Msg, Chunk, Accept).
+
+custom_server_loop(Msg, Chunk, Accept) ->
+    receive_packet(),
+    send_response(Msg, Chunk, Accept),
+    custom_server_loop(Msg, Chunk, Accept).
+
+send_response(Msg, Chunk, Socket) ->
+    inet:setopts(Socket, [{active, once}]),
+    gen_tcp:send(Socket, Msg),
+    timer:sleep(250),
+    gen_tcp:send(Socket, Chunk).
+
+receive_packet() ->
+    receive
+        {tcp, _, Msg} ->
+            ct:log("Message received: ~p", [Msg])
+    after
+        1000 ->
+            ct:fail("Timeout: did not recive packet")
+    end.
+
+%%--------------------------------------------------------------------
 stream_fun_server_close() ->
     [{doc, "Test that an error msg is received when using a receiver fun as stream target"}].
 stream_fun_server_close(Config) when is_list(Config) ->