receiveResponse function does not work when response is empty (i.e a head request)

[miladz68]

when I make a head request to a server the body that I receive is empty so the receiveResponse function does not work (it waits for a long time for the end of file, but there is none).

[miladz68]

the server that I make the call to is Snap. I checked the code and it appears that the code gets stuck here https://hackage.haskell.org/package/http-streams-0.8.4.0/docs/src/Network-Http-Connection.html#receiveResponse at line Streams.skipToEof i' . It gets stuck there for some reason.

[istathar]

I'm going to look at this, obviously, but I don't suppose you have a URL you're hitting that you could give to let us test against?

[miladz68]

@afcowie
Unfortunately I cannot setup a server, I test it on my localhost.

[istathar]

@miladz68 Ok. I was only asking because "can I see for myself" sounded a little better than "can you write a test case which demonstrates the problem?" But if the target server is written in Snap, then you could certainly write a test case into the http-streams test suite. If you do a pull request with that (failing) test I'll take it from there.