http.get/post connection close

[bla-ckbox]

http.get/post functions do not close http connection when the server sends the "Connection: close" header.

[toots]

Hi,

I'm not sure how to reproduce this. All http requests' sockets are closed after one request, which is not optimal but should thus not entail the issue your describing.

Could tell us more about your issue and how to reproduce it? Thanks!

[bla-ckbox]

Hello

I use http.post for scrobbling on a function called by on_metadata. My problem is that the server where are sent data takes a long time to respond causing "We must catchup" messages.

Scrobbing serveur sends http header "Connection: close" to release the client but liquidsoap does not take into account and waits for the server closes the connection.

In php, you can send "Connection: close" like this

<?php
ignore_user_abort(true);
ob_start();
header("Connection: close", true);
header("Content-Length: 0", true);
ob_end_flush();
flush();
// Client must close the connection

// Continue processing after
Sleep(25);
echo("Text user will never see");

A workaround is to use curl (he takes "Connection: close" into account) in system function.

[toots]

Last commit should have fixed this issue. Please re-open if needed..