Bug #10715: WEBrick::HTTPResponse#to_s calls send_response(), and make debugging quite difficult.

• Status: Closed
• Assignee: -
• Target version: -
• ruby -v: trunk
• Backport: 2.0.0: UNKNOWN, 2.1: UNKNOWN, 2.2: UNKNOWN

[yoshiokatsuneo (Tsuneo Yoshioka)]

WEBrick::HTTPResponse#to_s calls send_response(), and this makes debugging very difficult.
If I run webrick on debugger or just do "print" debug, and show status of the object in some point,
then debugger or "print" may calls "to_s" and go to weird status (like setting content-length to zero and never changes).

I suggest to remove "to_s" method from WEBrick::HTTPResponse, and just directly call
"send_response" instead of "to_s" when needed.

[jeremyevans0 (Jeremy Evans)]

It looks like WEBrick::HTTPResponse#to_s is currently broken anyway (https://github.com/ruby/webrick/pull/20). I agree that it makes sense to remove the method, and added a pull request to do so (https://github.com/ruby/webrick/pull/22).

[ko1 (Koichi Sasada)]

• Status changed from Open to Closed

should we continue on github issue?