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authorSverker Eriksson <[email protected]>2011-11-28 15:14:14 +0100
committerSverker Eriksson <[email protected]>2011-12-06 11:06:44 +0100
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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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diff --git a/lib/kernel/doc/src/inet.xml b/lib/kernel/doc/src/inet.xml
index fad5af85bb..1a05b4ba99 100644
--- a/lib/kernel/doc/src/inet.xml
+++ b/lib/kernel/doc/src/inet.xml
@@ -573,6 +573,10 @@ fe80::204:acff:fe17:bf38
is longer than the max allowed length, the packet is
considered invalid. The same happens if the packet header
is too big for the socket receive buffer.</p>
+ <p>For line oriented protocols (<c>line</c>,<c>http*</c>),
+ option <c>packet_size</c> also guarantees that lines up to the
+ indicated length are accepted and not considered invalid due
+ to internal buffer limitations.</p>
</item>
<tag><c>{read_packets, Integer}</c>(UDP sockets)</tag>
<item>