Re: TE question

Thanks, Robert. I'm surprised I didn't get that....seems rather obvious
now.

Will look forward to the completed framework.

Robert Collins wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Joe Cooper" <joe@swelltech.com>
> To: "Robert Collins" <robert.collins@itdomain.com.au>; "Squid Dev" <squid-dev@squid-cache.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 4:54 PM
> Subject: TE question
>
>
>
>> Hi Robert,
>>
>> I was hoping you'd take a few moments to clarify something for me in the
>> TE code (rbcollins_filters branch from CVS fetched this afternoon).
>> Forgive me if the question is a litte thick headed, as I'm learning as I go.
>>
>> This bit in client_side.c:httpRequestFree has me puzzled:
>>
>> while (http->te_translations) {
>> TE_list *tf = http->te_translations;
>> http->te_translations = http->te_translations->next;
>> xfree (tf);
>> }
>
>
> each request has a list of transfer-encodings to apply. They are request specific (it doesn't make sense to gzip tar.gz files for
> instance). That code loops through the list and frees the memory taken up by the list.
>
>
>> This is just running through a do nothing loop, incrementing through all
>> of the http-> te_translations in the list, right? If I'm missing
>> something and this is doing something, please tell me what's happening,
>> as I can't see it. (Have I mentioned that I'm learning as I go? ;-)
>
>
> It's freeing memory used - see above.

>> I'm guessing this just hasn't really been written yet, since you've just
>> begun work on the client_side.
>
>
> That's original code by Patrick McManus. Don't blame me:-]. Actually the code there is correct. I'll be moving it to
> transfer-encoding.c at some point though. (I'm grouping all the functions there so I can update client to handle te as well.)

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