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Posted to apache-bugdb@apache.org by Larry Hastings <fu...@mpath.com> on 1998/11/05 01:40:01 UTC

Re: general/3334: End-of-line convention conversion for text/plain POST truncates data

The following reply was made to PR general/3334; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Larry Hastings <fu...@mpath.com>
To: lars@apache.org
Cc: apbugs@apache.org
Subject: Re: general/3334: End-of-line convention conversion for text/plain POST 
 truncates data
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1998 16:38:25 -0800

 lars@apache.org wrote:
 > Err, if the headers submitted by a client are
 > not terminated with "/r/n" the client is broken.

 True enough, but it still tickles a bug in Apache.  Apache should either
 correctly convert \n -> \r\n, or not bother.  That it truncates the data
 is a bug--admittedly minor, and only for broken clients, but still a
 bug.

 Cheers,

 larry