* lib/webrick/httpresponse.rb: Allow #body to be an IO-like object

  that responds to #readpartial and #read.
  [ruby-trunk - Feature #8155]
* NEWS:  NEWS for above
* test/webrick/test_httpresponse.rb:  Tests for above.


git-svn-id: svn+ssh://ci.ruby-lang.org/ruby/trunk@42427 b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/lib/webrick/httpresponse.rb b/lib/webrick/httpresponse.rb
index 8e3eb39a31..044b8dfcaf 100644
--- a/lib/webrick/httpresponse.rb
+++ b/lib/webrick/httpresponse.rb
@@ -47,7 +47,8 @@ module WEBrick
     attr_accessor :reason_phrase
 
     ##
-    # Body may be a String or IO subclass.
+    # Body may be a String or IO-like object that responds to #read and
+    # #readpartial.
 
     attr_accessor :body
 
@@ -299,9 +300,10 @@ module WEBrick
     # Sends the body on +socket+
 
     def send_body(socket) # :nodoc:
-      case @body
-      when IO then send_body_io(socket)
-      else send_body_string(socket)
+      if @body.respond_to? :readpartial then
+        send_body_io(socket)
+      else
+        send_body_string(socket)
       end
     end