Re: got_body signal

[Dan Winship <danw gnome org>]

Wouter Cloetens wrote:
> To begin; the documentation tags refer to signals with dashes between
> the words, but the actual strings have underscores, e.g. got-headers vs.
> got_headers.

"-" and "_" are equivalent in signal names. The gtk sources show the 
same inconsistency in usage... (In particular, I think the issue is that 
people prefer to use "_" in the actual signal names, but gtk-doc 
requires you to use "-" in the docs.)

> My real issue though: I'm not getting the got_body signal.

This is with the code you were working on the other day? Unfortunately, 
after we talked I remembered that there's a bug with using 
soup_message_io_pause() from within a got_chunk callback. 
(http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=452280) I'd previously closed 
it as NOTABUG, because soup_message_io_pause() was only meant to be used 
on the server side, but I realize now that there is a legitimate use 
case for it on the client side too. So there will be a fix for that 
soon, although I'm not sure when there'll be an actual release.

(As for working around the bug in the current sources, the best you can 
do is to just not use pause/unpause, but instead depend only on starting 
and stopping the main loop to control I/O. But that means you have to 
deal with the possibility of multiple chunks being emitted each time you 
start the loop.)

-- Dan