Re: Bug in HTTP::Request::Common CHECK_BOUNDARY ?
Randal L. Schwartz (merlyn@stonehenge.com)
18 Jun 1999 07:10:40 -0700
>>>>> "Antoine" == Antoine Bertier <antoine.bertier@axa.com> writes:
Antoine> Hello,
Antoine> I have problems with using HTTP::Request::Common to post files on a web
Antoine> site. It seems that the selected boundary (000 by default) is not
Antoine> checked correctly for existence in the transmitted parts. Since 000 is
Antoine> often found in HTML files as a color specification this causes problems.
Antoine> I think in CHECK_BOUNDARY the check must be on $boundary not on
Antoine> "--$boundary" which is the boundary line the standard specifies and not
Antoine> the boundary itself.
Antoine> So I would suggest to replace:
Antoine> if (index($_, "--$boundary") >= 0) {
Antoine> by
Antoine> if (index($_, "$boundary") >= 0) {
I suppose this would be to work around a *broken* webserver that
*incorrectly* triggered when $boundary was seen (a violation of RFCs),
rather than when "--$boundary" was seen.
Why don't you post the name of the broken webserver? Then we can
decide how bad the problem is worth working around. :)
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