Re: [PATCH] protocol/1399: MISE 4.0 POST, then 401 Unauth, then garbage

[Martin Kraemer <Ma...@mch.sni.de>]

On Wed, Nov 12, 1997 at 07:21:08AM -0800, Roy T. Fielding wrote:
> This is what I mean by adding discard_request_body(r) to die().
> Can somebody test it on the user's problem?
>      /*
> +     * If we want to keep the connection, be sure that the request body
> +     * (if any) has been read.
> +     */
> +    if ((r->status != HTTP_NOT_MODIFIED) && (r->status != HTTP_NO_CONTENT)
> +        && !status_drops_connection(r->status)
> +        && r->connection && (r->connection->keepalive != -1)) {
> +
> +        (void) discard_request_body(r);
> +    }

An (untested) +1: it looks like the right thing to do.
In which situation could r->connection be NULL?

   Martin
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