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Re: Malformed URLs using curl

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 19:48:51 +0100 (CET)

On Wed, 21 Jan 2009, Guenther Boelter wrote:

> In esniper ( http://esniper.sourceforge.net/ ) many times already I had a
> problem with malfomed URLs like this:
>
> Cannot connect to URL hPW>s://signin.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?SignIn

This is not a libcurl output!

> Is it possiple, that the old libcurl URL Buffer Overflow is back in
> curl, like it was reported here:
> http://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20051207.html

Everything is possible, but I'd consider that highly unlikely.

A much likelier reason is that the program using libcurl (esniper in this
case) does something weird.

-- 
  / daniel.haxx.se
Received on 2009-01-21