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Re: NCSA httpd 1.3 and Server Push Problem - comp.infosystems.www.providers #22377
One for the bug list...

In article <3jlmuo$9ic@flop.mcom.com>, Rob McCool <robm@mcom.com> writes:
|> >
|> > The problem is this (I think). NCSA's httpd 1.3 terminates the mime
|> > type when it reaches a space.
|> [...]
|> >
|> > Is this a bug in NCSA's httpd?
|>
|> Yes, it is. There's an sscanf() somewhere in http_mime.c that's removing the
|> part after the semicolon (I'd give you a line number but I haven't seen the
|> source in months). Removing the space between the semicolon and boundary is a
|> good workaround, the real fix is to get rid of that sscanf in the httpd source
|> and use something else like strcpy instead.
|>
|> --
|> Rob McCool, robm@netscape.com <URL:http://home.netscape.com/people/robm/>
|> Stunt Programmer, Netscape Communications Corporation
|> It was working ten minutes ago, I swear...
Re: NCSA httpd 1.3 and Server Push Problem - comp.infosystems.www.providers #22377 [ In reply to ]
>
> On another subject, it's time to reach closure on Rob McCool. Shall I
> officially invite him to join?
>

Sure, he's the only person at Netscape who talks any sense these days.

If anyone doesn't want him on this list, speak up - I won't argue
to have him on the list.
Re: NCSA httpd 1.3 and Server Push Problem - comp.infosystems.www.providers #22377 [ In reply to ]
Date: Thu, 9 Mar 95 09:53:36 MST
From: hartill@qcd.lanl.gov (Rob Hartill)
Precedence: bulk
Reply-To: new-httpd@hyperreal.com

One for the bug list...

I've added it to my copy, with a note that no code is available (this
is, again, http://www.ai.mit.edu/tools/new-httpd/patch-list.txt). I
still haven't seen Cliff's list, unfortunately.

As long as I'm now adding items for which we have no code, I made a
start on adding wish-list extensions, and added one interesting patch
which is available from the Brooks Cutter patches (which you can get
to from

http://www.yahoo.com/Computers/World_Wide_Web/HTTP/Servers/NCSA_httpd/

I've tried to mark those items for which I've seen no code fairly
clearly. That doesn't always imply that they're complicated jobs,
just that no one has done the dirty business of writing *and testing*
a fix.

On another subject, it's time to reach closure on Rob McCool. Shall I
officially invite him to join?

rst
Re: NCSA httpd 1.3 and Server Push Problem - comp.infosystems.www.providers #22377 [ In reply to ]
> On another subject, it's time to reach closure on Rob McCool. Shall I
> officially invite him to join?

Yes please.

> rst

Ay.