Re: http_get does not retrieve page content
- Posted by jimcbrown (admin) Jan 09, 2013
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Not all http servers adhere exactly to the "standard". By strictly following the "standard" Eu will "break" when attempting to fetch a page with any deviation from what is acceptable to Eu. This procedure is now broken.
It's not Eu place to enforce the "standards", and it's unacceptable that Eu is voluntarily broken, and intolerant of any slight difference in the "standard". Eu will now refuse to get those webpages, when it is quite possible to gracefully get them.
This sounds very reasonable to me.
Me too, although I'd like to see some hard data (specific websites that demonstrate the symptoms of this issue - and if possible, statistics on how widespread this is and how other HTTP library implementations deal with this issue) before I'd feel comfortable implementing this kind of change myself.
Still, I'll defer to the group decision, as I usually do.
