--- Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se> wrote:
> On Tue, 27 May 2003, Rudy Koento wrote:
>
> > I've trouble connecting to a SMC wireless AP
> (SMC2655W) using curl 7.10.4
> > (and .5 and cvs version).
> > It works before with curl 7.9.8.
>
> I have a fairly good idea of what's causing your
> problem. And it isn't really
> connecting that is the problem, right?

Yes, my statement is indeed misleading :P
>
> > I run the command:
> > $ ./curl -d "passwd=default"
> 192.168.2.50/cgi-bin/login_post -v
>
> [cut out curl traces]
>
> > From the log, seems that "passwd=default" is
> passed after the "HTTP/1.0 200
> > OK"? This is not the case when I use curl 7.9.8.
> The "passwd=..." is
> > before "HTTP/1.0 ...."
>
> Starting recently, curl does send POST requests in
> two write()s, while it
> previously only used one single write(). The server
> should not reply anything
> until it has received the full POST request, which
> it hasn't until the 14
> bytes after the header have been received.

Ah, now I understand what had happened

>
> While this should not matter, your server here is
> probably badly written to
> assume that all data will come at once.

Yes, I suppose it's because it is an embedded web
server inside the wireless AP...

>
> This change was made for several reasons (including
> allow callbacks to
> provide post data and easier transfer-encoding:
> chunked treatment for posted
> data), but I think we can make a fix that for
> non-chunked posts with static
> post data can go back to one single write().
>
> I'll be back soon with a suggested patch to try.

Great! Thanks!

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Received on 2003-05-27