On Tue, 13 Mar 2001 Joern.Hartroth_at_comma-soft.com wrote:

> 'couple of quirks detected when trying to compile curl 7.7 beta 2 on
> MingW32. I'll check them into cvs tonight if I can get the connection up.
>
> Also, I'm getting CURLE_READ_ERRORs after 4k of downloaded content when
> trying to read a page via https.
> Example:
> curl http://www.zedz.net/index.html works,
> curl https://www.zedz.net/index.html fails after 4096 bytes.

Thanks!

This turns out to be a problem in my chunked transfer-encoding parser. I have
to analyze this a bit more. This seems to be a fix that at least hides this
problem for now:

diff -u -r1.3 http_chunks.c
--- http_chunks.c 2001/03/12 15:20:35 1.3
+++ http_chunks.c 2001/03/13 16:04:56
@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@
         if(0 == ch->hexindex) {
           /* This is illegal data, we received junk where we expected
              a hexadecimal digit. */
- return CHUNKE_ILLEGAL_HEX;
+ /*return CHUNKE_ILLEGAL_HEX;*/
         }
         /* length and datap are unmodified */
         ch->hexbuffer[ch->hexindex]=0;

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