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Re: Issue with WRITE_FUNCTION callback , multi socket interface.

From: Badari Prasad via curl-library <curl-library_at_cool.haxx.se>
Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2019 21:28:14 +0530

Thank you for response.

On Mon 4 Mar, 2019, 12:37 Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se wrote:

> On Mon, 4 Mar 2019, Badari Prasad via curl-library wrote:
>
> > Does libcurl provide any event to application like START_OF_READ when
> > response is ready and END_OF_READ kind of event which I can make use of
> for
> > an http connection ? or any other better solution to this kind of issue
> > where multiple responses for a single http request is received by client.
>
> No.
>
> The response that curl gets is TCP. TCP is just a stream of bytes and curl
> reads bytes whenever there are any available on the network to read.
> There's
> no way for curl to make any other distinction of what is being delivered.
>
> If what comes over the TCP is multiple messages as you say, then you need
> to
> parse the contents or otherwise send markers in that content to make your
> app
> able to do the necessary separation.
>
> Also remember that due to routing, package retransmits etc, what looked
> like
> "gaps" between TCP segments from one end might not at all by any gaps in
> the
> other end, and data that is sent back to back might end up arriving with
> time
> between the packages.
>
> --
>
> / daniel.haxx.se
>

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