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curl_easy_nextheader returns null on all subsequent requests after having followed a redirect #9424

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charonn0 opened this issue Sep 3, 2022 · 3 comments
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charonn0 commented Sep 3, 2022

I did this

I'm calling curl_easy_nextheader in a loop to count the number of requests in the previous transfer. This works until a transfer involves HTTP redirection. After the redirected request completes, curl_easy_nextheader will work as expected. However, on all subsequent requests curl_easy_nextheader will return null if the request parameter is greater than -1.

I expected the following

That curl_easy_nextheader would not be affected by previous transfers.

curl/libcurl version

libcurl/7.85.0 OpenSSL/3.0.5 (Schannel) zlib/1.2.12 brotli/1.0.9 zstd/1.5.2 libidn2/2.3.3 libssh2/1.10.0 nghttp2/1.49.0 ngtcp2/0.8.0 nghttp3/0.7.0 libgsasl/1.10.0

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Windows 10 build 19044.1889

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bagder commented Sep 4, 2022

Thanks a lot for your report!

Do you perhaps have a small stand-alone program we can run from our ends against a public URL to trigger the problem?

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charonn0 commented Sep 7, 2022

My knowledge of C is limited, but I cobbled together something. I get linker errors when I try to run it, so I'm not 100% sure it's correct.

#include "curl.h"
 
int main(void)
{
  CURL *curl;
  CURLcode res;
 
  curl = curl_easy_init();
  if(curl) {

    /*perform a request that involves redirection*/
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "https://nghttp2.org/httpbin/redirect/1");
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1L);
    res = curl_easy_perform(curl);
    if(res != CURLE_OK)
      fprintf(stderr, "curl_easy_perform() failed: %s\n", curl_easy_strerror(res));

    /*count the number of requests by reading the first header of each request. Works as expected. */
    struct curl_header *h;
    int count = 0;
    int origins = (CURLH_HEADER|CURLH_TRAILER|CURLH_CONNECT|CURLH_1XX|CURLH_PSEUDO);
    while((h = curl_easy_nextheader(curl, origins, count, NULL))) {
        count++;
    }
    printf("count =%u\n",count ); /* count=2 */

    /*perform another request.*/
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "https://www.example.com");
    res = curl_easy_perform(curl);
    if(res != CURLE_OK)
      fprintf(stderr, "curl_easy_perform() failed: %s\n", curl_easy_strerror(res));

    /*count the number of requests again. Always get NULL back. */
    count = 0;
    while((h = curl_easy_nextheader(curl, origins, count, NULL))) {
        count++;
    }
    printf("count =%u\n",count );/* count=0 */
    curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
  }
  return 0;
}

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bagder commented Sep 7, 2022

Excellent, I can reproduce what you have reported with this.

jay added a commit to jay/curl that referenced this issue Sep 7, 2022
Prior to this change linker errors would occur if curl_easy_header or
curl_easy_nextheader was called from a C++ unit.

Bug: curl#9424 (comment)
Reported-by: Andrew Lambert

Closes #xxxx
@bagder bagder self-assigned this Sep 7, 2022
bagder added a commit that referenced this issue Sep 7, 2022
If not, reusing an easy handle to do a subsequent transfer would
continue the counter from the previous invoke, which then would make use
of the header API difficult/impossible as the request counter
mismatched.

Add libtest 1947 to verify.

Reported-by: Andrew Lambert
Fixes #9424
@bagder bagder removed the needs-info label Sep 7, 2022
bagder added a commit that referenced this issue Sep 7, 2022
If not, reusing an easy handle to do a subsequent transfer would
continue the counter from the previous invoke, which then would make use
of the header API difficult/impossible as the request counter
mismatched.

Add libtest 1947 to verify.

Reported-by: Andrew Lambert
Fixes #9424
jay added a commit that referenced this issue Sep 8, 2022
Prior to this change linker errors would occur if curl_easy_header or
curl_easy_nextheader was called from a C++ unit.

Bug: #9424 (comment)
Reported-by: Andrew Lambert

Closes #9446
bagder added a commit that referenced this issue Sep 9, 2022
If not, reusing an easy handle to do a subsequent transfer would
continue the counter from the previous invoke, which then would make use
of the header API difficult/impossible as the request counter
mismatched.

Add libtest 1947 to verify.

Reported-by: Andrew Lambert
Fixes #9424
@bagder bagder closed this as completed in 9c9e839 Sep 9, 2022
jquepi pushed a commit to jquepi/curl.1.555 that referenced this issue Oct 24, 2022
Prior to this change linker errors would occur if curl_easy_header or
curl_easy_nextheader was called from a C++ unit.

Bug: curl/curl#9424 (comment)
Reported-by: Andrew Lambert

Closes curl/curl#9446
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