47129 - XML-RPC client doesn't get contentLength and therefore doesn't parse responce

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: XML, defect, P3)

Description

[Jan Varga [:janv]]

when I debuged code in
mozilla/extensions/xml-rpc/src/nsXmlRpcClient.js
it was running until line 367
and then stoped at accessing channel.contentLength

and when I temporary changed channel.contentLength to count
it worked perfectly
 
I noticed that nsHTTPResponse::GetContentLength returned
NS_ERROR_NOT_AVAILABLE because mContentLength=-1

Maybe problems with net library?

Comment 1

[Jan Varga [:janv]]

adding MJ to CC list

Comment 2

[Martijn Pieters]

Hmmm... according to the XML-RPC spec a Content-Length MUST be present on
XML-RPC responses. Are you sure the server is sending the CL? I am not sure if
my code handles this gracefully tho.

Comment 3

[Jan Varga [:janv]]

OK, server is not sending CL because response is generated dynamically with PHP
This have to be bug in PHP implementation of XML-RPC
I'm gonna mark this bug invalid.

Thanks