Re: [boost] [beast] Chunking example

Subject: Re: [boost] [beast] Chunking example
From: Bjorn Reese (breese_at_[hidden])
Date: 2017-07-02 17:54:12

On 07/02/2017 03:09 PM, Vinnie Falco via Boost wrote:

>          parser<isRequest, buffer_body> p;
>          read_header(stream, buffer, p, ec);
>          if(ec)
>              return;
>          while(! p.is_done())
>          {
>              char buf[512];
>              p.get().body.data = buf;
>              p.get().body.size = sizeof(buf);
>              read(stream, buffer, p, ec);

If the above is used to read a chunked transfer, what happens to
chunk-ext fields? Are they inserted as header fields or are they
lost?

Given that this is an example of incremental reading, why does it
use read() rather than read_some()?