[Haskell-cafe] hSetBuffering woes

[Eric]

Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:
> Eric wrote:
>
>> I'm writing  a simple HTTP server and am trying to implement the POST 
>> method.
>
> That's a rather general problem statement, indeed :-)  For an 
> application like this, I'd suggest that explicit resource management 
> is the way to go, and that you should not be using hGetContents at 
> all, under any guise.  For example, any scheme involving reading an 
> entire stream is going to do completely the wrong thing in the face of 
> HTTP keepalive.  Also, code that leaves open sockets piling up in 
> drifts, to eventually be shoveled up by the RTS, is going to be 
> trivially easy to DoS.
Are there any good resources/tutorials on Haskell network programming?

E.