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Bug #11671

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Net::HTTP uses closed keep-alive connection, causing EOFError

Added by krishan (Kristian Hanekamp) over 8 years ago. Updated over 8 years ago.

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Target version:
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[ruby-core:71421]

Description

Most HTTP servers close idle keep-alive connections after a timeout. For the client, this leads to the TCP socket reaching End-Of-File (EOF). Currently, Net::HTTP does not check for EOF before reusing a keep-alive connection, causing an EOFError.

For idempotent requests (for example GET), this does not do much harm, since Net::HTTP simply retries the request. But this does not work for requests that aren't idempotent like POST, so HTTP#post will raise an unnecessary EOFError.

My suggestion is to check for EOF before reusing a keep-alive connection.

I've prepared a Github PR for this: https://github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/1089

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