Http get commands return a bad results.

Matthew Dillon dillon at apollo.backplane.com
Wed Nov 17 10:39:17 PST 2004


:walt wrote:
:> I first had the problem with cups-1.1.22-source.tar.bz2 when updating
:> the cups port.  I had corrupted files from several ftp sites and I
:> remember that the file sizes were different each time.
:> 
:> I just used 'fetch' to get the same file and it is corrupted once again,
:> but the filesize is correct this time.  I'd be happy to send you the
:> file but I have no ftp server available to me.  May I upload it? (8MB)
:I noticed that fetch compiled with propolice and SOME ftp sites do not 
:play  well together. They ALWAYS play well when some proxy is involved - 
:even on same server! Basically fetch complains that file is corrupted 
:(size 0) despite transferring it in full. But this is nothing new - 
:was/is present on FreeBSD with propolice for some time.
:
:Toma¾

    That isn't good... it means that there is likely a buffer overflow
    in fetch somewhere.  propolice reorders the way space is allocated
    on the stack for declarations.

    In this case, however, the bug is clearly in SACK.

					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
					<dillon at xxxxxxxxxxxxx>





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