[En-Nut-Discussion] Failed HTTP request

[Harald Kipp]

Hi Nathan,

On 4/20/2011 7:36 PM, Nathan Moore wrote:
> Another thought is if you can use realloc to resize the buffer if you
> don't have a full
> line in it -- implementing a getline function, if you don't already have one.

At least there is none in nut/crt, but if no one else is faster, I'll 
add it, together with getdelim().

Although useful, they may not fit well here. What if a malformed request 
sends thousands of bytes? getline() will not stop until all memory is 
consumed.

One idea is to start with fgetc(). If it turns out after a few 
characters, that our server is not interested in this specific header, 
I'd like to discard the entire line, calling a new function fskipl() and 
avoiding this senseless buffer transfer.

For targets with enough memory, we may optionally include "unexpected 
headers" in an extended REQUEST structure.

Regards,

Harald