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Re: Malformed URLs using curl

From: Guenther Boelter <gboelter_at_gbsconsult.net>
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 18:41:00 +0800

Daniel Stenberg wrote:
> 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.
>
The output not, I agree. But that's not my problem ....

My problem is: What,s destroying my URLs and why only sometimes.

That looks like caused due a Buffer Overflow for me.

Guenther
Received on 2009-01-22