[Rd] Problems Reading from Socket

[mschaff at bu.edu]

To answer my own question (and maybe help someone else), it turns out 
my web server was sending chunked responses and inserting chunk sizes 
before each data chunk.

Changing the line:

request<-paste("POST ",path," HTTP/1.1\nHost: ",host...

to

request<-paste("POST ",path," HTTP/1.0\nHost: ",host...

disables chunked reponses and allows R to read directly from the socket 
without additional parsing.  So this wasn't really an R problem, but I 
thought this detail might help someone else.

--
Mike