[ee122] error checking

[Daniel Killebrew]

Nescio Nomen wrote:
> So the client sends a get request to the server, the server sends a 
> response back.  Do we have to verify that the response makes perfect 
> sense, eg their HTTP version matches our own,
You can check that the HTTP version is 1.0 or 1.1. If it's not then it's 
fine with me if you classify it as a bad response.
> the status code matches the phrase (eg 200 = OK)?
You should check the code, the phrase is more for us humans.
> The specs don't say to do any error checking on the response so if 
> it's not a big deal I'd just rather parse it as if it's correct and 
> focus on more important things.  If the response is nonsense, it'll 
> probably be detectable most of the time anyway, eg a regexp will 
> probably not find the status number, and so you can just reject the 
> response.  
If you choose to keep parsing a response even if the HTTP version does 
not match 1.1 or 1.0, and you are able to parse the response and do 
something useful, that's also good.

Daniel
> If we do have to do the kind of error checking I mentioned earlier, 
> should it be classified as a parsing error?
>
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