Re: quickie: client force no headers in server response

No. But when you receive a double CRLF the header is finished, there is no
other ways that I know of. To find out what content it is, check out the
Content-Type: header.

Christian


> Guys, is there anyway I can force the server to not send the HTTP header.
> I know you can use HEAD to get the headers, but is there a reverse of HEAD
> to receive only the entity.
>
> My program simply calls socket() to port 80 of a server.Then write() "GET
> <url>", block on read() and pending the server implementation I receive
> the header or not. Is there a way I can force it to simply send the
> entity, so I'm guaranteed to receive the body, no matter what
> implementation server I'm connecting to.
>
> There's a kludge I could do, and that is, the RFC states that the header
> and entity should be separated by a CRLF, but thats too dirty to program
> for, especially when you don't know when servers send the header of not. I
> have to keep in mind that I cannot assume what the response format may be,
> ie text, gif, etc..
>
> Anyone found themselves in this situation before?
> Thanks,
> Davin.
>

Received on Thursday, 10 February 2000 01:03:53 UTC