The implementation now stores all the lines of the request in a buffer
and makes a single send() call when the request is finished,
specifically when endheaders() is called.
This appears to improve performance. The old code called send() for
each line. The sends are all short, so they caused bad interactions
with the Nagle algorithm and delayed acknowledgements. In simple
tests, the second packet was delayed by 100s of ms. The second send was
delayed by the Nagle algorithm, waiting for the ack. The delayed ack
strategy delays the ack in hopes of piggybacking it on a data packet,
but the server won't send any data until it receives the complete
request.
This change minimizes the problem that Nagle + delayed ack will cause
a problem, although a request large enough to be broken into two
packets will still suffer some delay. Luckily the MSS is large enough
to accomodate most single packets.
XXX Bug fix candidate?
existed at the time atexit first got imported. That's a bug, and this
fixes it.
Also reworked test_atexit.py to test for this too, and to stop using
an "expected output" file, and to test what actually happens at exit
instead of just simulating what it thinks atexit will do at exit.
Bugfix candidate, but it's messy so I'll backport to 2.2 myself.
The test of httplib makes it difficult to maintain httplib. There are
two many idioms that pyclbr doesn't seem to understand, and I don't
understand how to update these tests to make them work.
Also remove commented out test of urllib2.
more spaces only crashed pdb.
While I was at it, cleaned up some style nits (spaces between function
and parenthesis, and redundant parentheses in if statement).
takes much longer to run in the context of the test suite than when run in
isolation. That's because it forces a large number of full collections,
which take time proportional to the total number of gc'ed objects in the
whole system.
But since the dangerous implementation trickery that caused this test to
fail in 2.0, 2.1 and 2.2 doesn't exist in 2.3 anymore (the trashcan
mechanism stopped doing evil things when the possibility for compiling
without cyclic gc was taken away), such an expensive test is no longer
justified. This checkin leaves the test intact, but fiddles the
constants to reduce the runtime by about a factor of 5.
debug-build failure when an instance of a new-style class is resurrected
by a __del__ method -- we simply never had any code that tried this.
This is already fixed in 2.3 CVS. In 2.2.1, it blows up via
Fatal Python error: GC object already in linked list
I'll fix it in 2.2.1 CVS next.
The recent SSL changes resulted in important, but subtle changes to
close() semantics. Since builtin socket makefile() is not called for
SSL connections, we don't get separately closeable fds for connection
and response. Comments in the code explain how to restore makefile
semantics.
Bug fix candidate.
.splitlines() on them, since they may be Header instances.
test_multilingual(), test_header_ctor_default_args(): New tests of
make_header() and that Header can take all default arguments.
create a Header instance. Closes feature request #539481.
Header.__init__(): Allow the initial string to be omitted.
__eq__(), __ne__(): Support rich comparisons for equality of Header
instances withy Header instances or strings.
Also, update a bunch of docstrings.
argument to the constructor -- defaulting to true -- which is
different than Anthony's approach of using global state.
parse(), parsestr(): Grow a `headersonly' argument which stops parsing
once the header block has been seen, i.e. it does /not/ parse or even
read the body of the message. This is used for parsing message/rfc822
type messages.
We need test cases for the non-strict parsing. Anthony will supply
these.
_parsebody(): We can get rid of the isdigest end-of-line kludges,
although we still need to know if we're parsing a multipart/digest so
we can set the default type accordingly.
text/plain but the RFCs state that inside a multipart/digest, the
default type is message/rfc822. To preserve idempotency, we need a
separate place to define the default type than the Content-Type:
header.
get_default_type(), set_default_type(): Accessor and mutator methods
for the default type.
recursive generation).
_dispatch(): If the message object doesn't have a Content-Type:
header, check its default type instead of assuming it's text/plain.
This makes for correct generation of message/rfc822 containers.
_handle_multipart(): We can get rid of the isdigest kludge. Just
print the message as normal and everything will work out correctly.
_handle_mulitpart_digest(): We don't need this anymore either.
ndiff function, so just alias it to assertEqual in that case.
Various: make sure all openfile()/read()'s are wrapped in
try/finally's so the file gets closed.
A bunch of new tests checking the corner cases for multipart/digest
and message/rfc822.
If multiple header fields with the same name occur, they are combined
according to the rules in RFC 2616 sec 4.2:
Appending each subsequent field-value to the first, each separated by
a comma. The order in which header fields with the same field-name are
received is significant to the interpretation of the combined field
value.
Section 19.6 of RFC 2616 (HTTP/1.1):
It is beyond the scope of a protocol specification to mandate
compliance with previous versions. HTTP/1.1 was deliberately
designed, however, to make supporting previous versions easy....
And we would expect HTTP/1.1 clients to:
- recognize the format of the Status-Line for HTTP/1.0 and 1.1
responses;
- understand any valid response in the format of HTTP/0.9, 1.0, or
1.1.
The changes to the code do handle response in the format of HTTP/0.9.
Some users may consider this a bug because all responses with a
sufficiently corrupted status line will look like an HTTP/0.9
response. These users can pass strict=1 to the HTTP constructors to
get a BadStatusLine exception instead.
While this is a new feature of sorts, it enhances the robustness of
the code (be tolerant in what you accept). Thus, I consider it a bug
fix candidate.
XXX strict needs to be documented.
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Jeremy Hylton
Tim Peters
Andrew MacIntyre
Marc-André Lemburg
Michael W. Hudson
Barry Warsaw
Kurt B. Kaiser
Thomas Heller
Fred Drake
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