inn-2.2 / storageapi + wireformat == corruption
David W. Hankins
dhankins at mercenary.net
Sat Sep 25 23:53:37 UTC 1999
On Sat, Sep 25, 1999 at 04:21:22PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Yup. I finally had a chance to go and look at this, and QIOread() has:
I'd rather innxmit just snarfed the article from storageapi then called
write() once rather than operate in line mode like that. But I guess the
mime weirdness makes that too difficult.
> The wire format guessing code is still going to need to use the first line
> termination found to determine whether an article is in wire format so
> that we can support older spools, but that should be safely in the headers
> where I'm pretty sure bare newlines are outlawed by the standards.
As I recall, line termination in the headers not matching \r\n are rejected
on error when INN receives an article, so that's probably a safe assumption.
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