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by James Robertson.
Original Post: Solving some oddness
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A BottomFeeder user ran across some oddness today - when auto-browsing items in a feed, he noticed that it worked on Windows, and broke on Linux. This was puzzling. We dove into the bowels of the request and socket response, and found out that in this case, the server was inaccurate in telling us how large the response was. For some reason, the Windows low level facilities cleaned this up, while it just barfed (and gave us a timeout error!) on Linux. It looks like there's a server problem there, but also some issues with the VW code. In the meantime, we discovered that turning keep-alive off for the request solved the problem. Having it off is likely the best thing in Bf anyway, since I'm not doing persistent connections...
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