http: always consume body on auth failure
When we get an authentication failure, we must consume the entire body of the response. If we only read half of the body (on the assumption that we can ignore the rest) then we will never complete the parsing of the message. This means that we will never set the complete flag, and our replay must actually tear down the connection and try again. This is particularly problematic for stateful authentication mechanisms (SPNEGO, NTLM) that require that we keep the connection alive. Note that the prior code is only a problem when the 401 that we are parsing is too large to be read in a single chunked read from the http parser. But now we will continue to invoke the http parser until we've got a complete message in the authentication failed scenario. Note that we need not do anything with the message, so when we get an authentication failed, we'll stop adding data to our buffer, we'll simply loop in the parser and let it advance its internal state.
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