[Bug classpath/24086] New: HttpURLConnection broken for large response bodies.

[daney at gcc dot gnu dot org]

The current implementation of HttpURLConnection buffers the response body in a
byte[].  Also at least one copy of the array is made.

On a system with unlimited memory this limits the size of the response body to
Integer.MAX_VALUE.  On systems with limited memory the maximum body size that
can be successfully read is somewhat less than one half of the available memory
size.

Tested with test cast to be attached with GCC HEAD of today.

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           Summary: HttpURLConnection broken for large response bodies.
           Product: classpath
           Version: unspecified
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: classpath
        AssignedTo: unassigned at gcc dot gnu dot org
        ReportedBy: daney at gcc dot gnu dot org
                CC: bug-classpath at gnu dot org
 GCC build triplet: i686-pc-linux-gnu
  GCC host triplet: i686-pc-linux-gnu
GCC target triplet: i686-pc-linux-gnu


http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=24086