Re: POST request data terminated at first null byte

From: Nigel Metheringham <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 17:29:42 +0000

Nigel.Metheringham@theplanet.net said:
} Looks like the POST data is being copied with a strncpy rather than a
} memcpy at a guess.

Looks like I was right... even better, here is the comment from the
offending section:-
     /* Use xmalloc/xmemcpy instead of xstrdup because inbuf might
      * contain NULL bytes; especially for POST data */

I guess we all have off days!

A patch is attached.

        Nigel.

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