From dc5f7190f16cf4552db74fba3f4e0f2d654e2594 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sverker Eriksson <sverker@erlang.org>
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2011 15:14:14 +0100
Subject: 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.
---
erts/doc/src/erlang.xml | 9 ++++++---
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
(limited to 'erts/doc')
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>
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