On Wed, Apr 09, 2014 at 06:04:22PM +0200, Vitezslav Cizek wrote: > > On mer, mar 26, 2014 at 08:04:30 +0100, Daniel Stenberg wrote: > > > 3. THE SOLUTION > > > > > > libcurl 7.36.0 makes sure that connections are re-used more strictly. > > > > > > A patch for this problem is available at: > > > > > > http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl-bad-reuse.patch > > > I've been trying to backport that patch to curl 7.26.0 (used in Debian > > stable), > > but I've noticed that the connection reuse has changed drastically since > > then, > > and that patch doesn't seem to be enough to fix the issue (in fact, it > > actually > > breaks the test suite, since test 519 freezes for some reason). I haven't > > even > > tried to backport it to Debian oldstable (7.21.0). > > > Is there someone that successfully backported it to something > > pre-7.30.0, or > > should I just give up? > > On old curl, the test server (sws) runs in a single thread and doesn't fork. > > The test 519 connects to the server over HTTP with a username/password and > later tries it with anotheruser/anotherpassword. > > The server runs a simple accept() loop where it serves the clients using > recv()/send(). > > Before the security patch, the two GET requests the test makes were > issued from a single connection. > Thus the server served the first request and later the other in a single > run of the accept() loop. > > After the patch, the two request now come in two separate connections. > So the server accept()s and serves the first connection and then waits in > recv(), because the connection is still open. > The code never gets to another accept() so the second connection isn't > served at all. > > I just disabled the 519 test.
I ended up doing the same thing, thanks for the help!
Cheers
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