Re: [curl-loader-devel] Question about curl-loader

[Robert I. <cor...@gm...>]

Jeremy,

On 3/24/07, Jeremy Hicks <je...@no...> wrote:

> initial_handles_init - error: alloc_client_post_buffers () .
> batch_function - "login" initial_handles_init () failed.
>

I do not think is that VMWare or Ubuntu (Michael
and another man are using Ubuntu with curl-loader successfully)
to be blamed.

After a brief code analyzes, however, when a user is willing to use LOGIN
for some kind of POST-ing (either GET+POST or POST-only),
but provided "not expected" (bug at our side) number of %symbols
in LOGIN_POST_STR, the errors may appear.

Currently, we count number of % symbols in such string and allow
either 4 or 2 (loader.c, function alloc_init_client_post_buffers ())

Two is for the cases, when all users and password for all clients
to be the same (like "user=%s&password=%s") or when users
with passwords are loaded from a credentials file.
Four is for the case, when we are generating unique credentials
by adding a number (like "user=%s%d&password=%s%d")

Well, it could be the case, that a user needs some more % symbols,
e.g. to place spaces like %20.

Therefore, on our side the fix will be to count the number of "%s" and "%d"
strings and to verify, that their sum is coming as 4 or 2.

Enhancement of configuration validation looks to be also appropriate.

When your configuration file will be available with a brief explanation, of
what you are planning to do, we will make the fixes, patches promptly.

Thank you and sorry for the bugs.

-- 
Sincerely,
Robert Iakobashvili,
coroberti %x40 gmail %x2e com
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