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Can not determine whether the response body is complete [rt.cpan.org #87919]

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
20/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
perl
Domain
networking

Research direction

Start by reviewing the migrated report and the referenced GitHub pull request #5 for the proposed method and its intended behavior. Confirm how response-body completeness should be determined and what tests or acceptance criteria are provided there; the work is done when callers can determine whether the HTTP response body is complete.

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Description

Migrated from rt.cpan.org#87919 (status was 'new')

Requestors:

From [email protected] on 2013-08-18 04:25:36:

I add a method to do this.

See
https://github.com/libwww-perl/net-http/pull/5
Dominant language
Perl
Stars
20
Forks
27
PR merge metrics
No merged PRs in 30d

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