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| author | Micael Karlberg <[email protected]> | 2011-09-19 19:26:54 +0200 |
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| committer | Micael Karlberg <[email protected]> | 2011-09-19 19:26:54 +0200 |
| commit | 7c730a573a7e239f41bc619b024a675667767428 (patch) | |
| tree | 1265ca1ddae47b094af21f669d0526c9c1b074dd /lib/kernel/doc/src/inet.xml | |
| parent | 13fcdd5c954ddbb8ac9401d73f8e77423fbd976c (diff) | |
| parent | e84f232326b2800ca806c867b2bfbe3652d423cb (diff) | |
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Merge branch 'dev' of super:otp into bmk/inets/inets571_integration
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diff --git a/lib/kernel/doc/src/inet.xml b/lib/kernel/doc/src/inet.xml index b36c28e027..fad5af85bb 100644 --- a/lib/kernel/doc/src/inet.xml +++ b/lib/kernel/doc/src/inet.xml @@ -555,8 +555,14 @@ fe80::204:acff:fe17:bf38 mode will return <c>{ok, HttpPacket}</c> from <c>gen_tcp:recv</c> while an active socket will send messages like <c>{http, Socket, HttpPacket}</c>.</p> - <p>Note that the packet type <c>httph</c> is not - needed when reading from a socket.</p> + </item> + <tag><c>httph | httph_bin</c></tag> + <item> + <p>These two types are often not needed as the socket will + automatically switch from <c>http</c>/<c>http_bin</c> to + <c>httph</c>/<c>httph_bin</c> internally after the first line + has been read. There might be occasions however when they are + useful, such as parsing trailers from chunked encoding.</p> </item> </taglist> </item> |