Hi Daniel,

Thanks for your information.

Can you tell me BugID for this issue, as I would like to
integrate this fix.

Thanks & regards,
Chandrakant

>-----Original Message-----
>From: curl-library-bounces_at_cool.haxx.se [mailto:curl-library-
>bounces_at_cool.haxx.se] On Behalf Of Daniel Stenberg
>Sent: 13 February 2012 17:57
>To: libcurl development
>Subject: RE: Invalid proxy settings
>
>On Mon, 13 Feb 2012, Chandrakant Bagul -ERS, HCL Tech wrote:
>
>>> Yes, right. I was being stupid - setopt() basically only copies the string
>>> and does no parsing whatsoever. I could repeat your problem and I've now
>>> pushed a fix for this with an associated test case (1329). Thanks for
>>> reporting!
>>
>> Could you please explain the provided fix & which different invalid proxy
>> settings are covered/considered in the LibCurl.
>
>The primary flaw I fixed:
>
>libcurl could end up stripping off the left part of a proxy name (like
>everything up to a slash) and only consider the remainder (the right part) as
>the actual name. If the remainder happened to be zero bytes long it would then
>be treated as no proxy at all.
>
>In your case, it turned out libcurl could connect to something (else?) without
>a proxy and that is what happened.
>
>Now with my fix applied, libcurl will not allow a zero length proxy name to go
>through but will return error instead. If the proxy name is longer than zero
>bytes, then it is a host name that will be resolved or used "like normal" and
>if that is bad then the resolving of it should fail just like before.
>
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>
> / daniel.haxx.se
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