[web-devel] http-enumerator : Any way to get the headers first?

[Erik de Castro Lopo]

Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:

> I shied away from c) for two reasons:
> 
>   - I thought exposing iterHeaders would have other uses as well.
> 
>   - How do we know that we are at the end of the request body? With
>     chunked/gzipped data (and no content-length header) the body decoder
>     figures out where the end is.
> 
> I'll have a play with c) and see how it behaves. My idea is to
> simply be to add a
> 
>     rawData :: Bool
> 
> field to the Request data structure. If that element is True then no
> dechunking or gunzipping will occur. Once I've tried this relatively
> trivial change I will know for sure what the happens at the end of
> the body.

This seems to work quite nicely. My proxy now works for a bunch
of cases where it was failing before.

I'll sumbit a pull request on hithub for this.

Cheers,
Erik
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