[Freeciv-Dev] (PR#11729) data before first section

["Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa" <vasc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11729 >

> [jdorje - Sun Jan 02 05:10:46 2005]:
> 
> The "offending"
> line is the 1f80 one.  This is seemingly not part of the header
> because
> it's after the "empty" line signifying the end of the header.  But if
> you look at this page in a browser

Yeah, its sending the reply in a chunked encoding. I danced around it
in the metaserver to fix. Should work fine now. Thanks.

> Do we do manual parsing of the HTTP response?  

We always did. Even with the old metaserver.

> If so, we shouldn't. We should use an HTTP library like ghttp.

Or maybe not. It would add an extra dep, bloat the distribution,
not to mention ghttp has zero WinSock support.