[Haskell-cafe] Trying to write a very simple HTTP Client

[Bulat Ziganshin]

Hello Johan,

Friday, May 23, 2008, 5:58:04 PM, you wrote:

>>           cs    <- hGetLine out
>>           hClose out
>>           print cs
>>
> I think you need to either print cs before you close the socket or
> make sure that cs is force (~computed) before you close the socket as
> laziness makes it get evaluated when you call print cs rather than
> when you call hGetLine. In other words, you try to read from the
> socket after you've closed it.

hGetLine, unlike hGetContents, has a strict semantics. actually,
hGetContents is only lazy i/o operation, everything else (hGetChar,
hGetBuf, hGetArray) is strict


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 Bulat                            mailto:Bulat.Ziganshin at gmail.com