Use a bufio.Scanner in http listener

this will prevent potential very large allocations due to a very large
chunk size send from a client.

fixes #1823

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@
 - [#1137](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1137): Fix issue loading config directory on windows.
 - [#1772](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1772): Windows remote management interactive service fix.
 - [#1702](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1702): sqlserver, fix issue when case sensitive collation is activated.
+- [#1823](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1823): Fix huge allocations in http_listener when dealing with huge payloads.
 
 ## v1.0.1 [unreleased]
 

plugins/inputs/http_listener/http_listener.go

@@ -1,7 +1,9 @@
 package http_listener
 
 import (
-	"io/ioutil"
+	"bufio"
+	"bytes"
+	"fmt"
 	"log"
 	"net"
 	"net/http"
@@ -111,25 +113,34 @@ func (t *HttpListener) httpListen() error {
 func (t *HttpListener) ServeHTTP(res http.ResponseWriter, req *http.Request) {
 	t.wg.Add(1)
 	defer t.wg.Done()
-	body, err := ioutil.ReadAll(req.Body)
-	if err != nil {
-		log.Printf("Problem reading request: [%s], Error: %s\n", string(body), err)
-		http.Error(res, "ERROR reading request", http.StatusInternalServerError)
-		return
-	}
 
 	switch req.URL.Path {
 	case "/write":
-		var metrics []telegraf.Metric
-		metrics, err = t.parser.Parse(body)
+		var http400msg bytes.Buffer
+		var partial string
+		scanner := bufio.NewScanner(req.Body)
+		scanner.Buffer([]byte(""), 128*1024)
+		for scanner.Scan() {
+			metrics, err := t.parser.Parse(scanner.Bytes())
 			if err == nil {
 				for _, m := range metrics {
 					t.acc.AddFields(m.Name(), m.Fields(), m.Tags(), m.Time())
 				}
-			res.WriteHeader(http.StatusNoContent)
+				partial = "partial write: "
 			} else {
-			log.Printf("Problem parsing body: [%s], Error: %s\n", string(body), err)
-			http.Error(res, "ERROR parsing metrics", http.StatusInternalServerError)
+				http400msg.WriteString(err.Error() + " ")
+			}
+		}
+
+		if err := scanner.Err(); err != nil {
+			http.Error(res, "Internal server error: "+err.Error(), http.StatusInternalServerError)
+		} else if http400msg.Len() > 0 {
+			res.Header().Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
+			res.Header().Set("X-Influxdb-Version", "1.0")
+			res.WriteHeader(http.StatusBadRequest)
+			res.Write([]byte(fmt.Sprintf(`{"error":"%s%s"}`, partial, http400msg.String())))
+		} else {
+			res.WriteHeader(http.StatusNoContent)
 		}
 	case "/query":
 		// Deliver a dummy response to the query endpoint, as some InfluxDB