Josef Spillner

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Unicode-unsafe string handling in mconsole

uml_mconsole uses a char[11] to represent the name of running instances. This is a bit short for multibyte-encoded strings. What's worse is that a multibyte character might be cut off in the middle, leaving a stray last character behind. This doesn't seem to affect the functionality, but nevertheless looks strange and broken in case of somewhat longer instance names. Either not cutting off the...

2009-07-17 15:29:39 UTC in User-mode Linux kernel port
Endpoint replacement in WSDL is brittle

The endpoint replacement technique in ServiceContainer.py makes a lot of assumptions about the XML formatting of the original WSDL document. It uses regular expressions instead of a DOM/XPath-based approach, and it hardcodes the "soap" prefix in "soap:address". It relies on an internal assignment to _wsdl, instead of a function which handles include/import dependencies and rewriting the WSDL...

2009-06-28 15:05:02 UTC in Web Services for Python