Changeset 03a8f8e for lib

Timestamp:

2011-11-13T01:41:42Z (13 years ago)

Author:

Wilmer van der Gaast <wilmer@…>

Branches:

master

Children:

80acb6d

Parents:

dff732d

Message:

Cleanup of http_client fix. Use g_strdup_printf and completely avoid strcat,
truncate request if we switched from POST to GET.

File:

• lib/http_client.c (modified) (3 diffs)

lib/http_client.c

@@ -2 +2 @@
   * BitlBee -- An IRC to other IM-networks gateway                     *
   *                                                                    *
-  * Copyright 2002-2005 Wilmer van der Gaast and others                *
+  * Copyright 2002-2011 Wilmer van der Gaast and others                *
   \********************************************************************/
 
@@ -354 +354 @@
                         url_t *url;
                         char *s;
+                        const char *new_method;
                         
                         s = strstr( loc, "\r\n" );
@@ -369 +370 @@
                         }
                         
-                        /* Okay, this isn't fun! We have to rebuild the request... :-( */
-                        new_request = g_malloc( req->request_length + strlen( url->file ) );
-                        
-                        /* So, now I just allocated enough memory, so I'm
-                           going to use strcat(), whether you like it or not. :-) */
-                        
-                        *s = 0;
-                        sprintf( new_request, "%s %s HTTP/1.0\r\nHost: %s",
-                                 req->status_code == 303 || req->request[0] == 'G' ? "GET" : "POST", url->file, url->host );
-                        *s = ' ';
-                        
+                        /* Find all headers and, if necessary, the POST request contents.
+                           Skip the old Host: header though. This crappy code here means
+                           anything using this http_client MUST put the Host: header at
+                           the top. */
                         if( !( ( s = strstr( req->request, "\r\nHost: " ) ) &&
                                ( s = strstr( s + strlen( "\r\nHost: " ), "\r\n" ) ) ) )
                         {
                                 req->status_string = g_strdup( "Error while rebuilding request string" );
-                                g_free( new_request );
                                 g_free( url );
                                 goto cleanup;
                         }
                         
-                        strcat( new_request, s );
+                        /* More or less HTTP/1.0 compliant, from my reading of RFC 2616.
+                           Always perform a GET request unless we received a 301. 303 was
+                           meant for this but it's HTTP/1.1-only and we're specifically
+                           speaking HTTP/1.0. */
+                        new_method = req->status_code != 301 || req->request[0] == 'G' ? "GET" : "POST";
+                        
+                        /* Okay, this isn't fun! We have to rebuild the request... :-( */
+                        new_request = g_strdup_printf( "%s %s HTTP/1.0\r\nHost: %s%s",
+                                                       new_method, url->file, url->host, s );
+                        
                         new_host = g_strdup( url->host );
                         new_port = url->port;
                         new_proto = url->proto;
+                        
+                        /* If we went from POST to GET, truncate the request content. */
+                        if( new_request[0] != req->request[0] && new_request[0] == 'G' &&
+                            ( s = strstr( new_request, "\r\n\r\n" ) ) )
+                                s[4] = '\0';
                         
                         g_free( url );