Chunked encoding doesn’t require the length of the request body to be
known in advance. In cases where this value isn’t independently known,
as is normal for Crashpad report uploads where the HTTP request body is
constructed on the fly, chunked encoding eliminates the need to prepare
the entire request body in memory before transmitting it. In these
cases, it’s much less wasteful.
When the length of the request body is known in advance, based on the
provision of a Content-Length header, chunked encoding is not used.
Even so, the request is sent in pieces rather than reading the entire
request into memory before sending anything.
BUG=crashpad:159
TEST=crashpad_util_test HTTPTransport.*
Change-Id: Iebb2b63b936065cb8c3c4a62b58f9c14fec43937
Reviewed-on: https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/439644
Reviewed-by: Scott Graham <scottmg@chromium.org>
This unifies several things that used a 16-character random string, and
a few other users of random identifiers where it also made sense to use
a 16-character random string.
TEST=crashpad_util_test RandomString.RandomString
R=scottmg@chromium.org
Review URL: https://codereview.chromium.org/1451793002 .
HTTPTransport.Upload33k failed on Windows due to WinHTTP timing out. The
test server, http_transport_test_server.py, writes the entire request to
a stdout pipe, to be received by crashpad_util_test. crashpad_util_test
is also the HTTP client, and it does not attempt to read from this pipe
until the HTTP transaction is complete. http_transport_test_server.py
must not write to stdout until the transaction is complete, otherwise,
there is a risk of deadlock if the pipe buffer fills up. The new
Upload33k test sends a large request, which was filling up the pipe
buffer on Windows.
This also adds an Upload33k_LengthUnknown test variant to exercise a
large POST when the length is not known ahead of time. This more closely
matches how Crashpad crash uploads are done on OS X.
TEST=crashpad_util_test HTTPTransport.*
R=rsesek@chromium.org
Review URL: https://codereview.chromium.org/1286173007 .
