0xff will be 255, -1 means no byte to read, EOF.
On Oct 10, 2011, at 7:15 PM, Xuelei Fan <xuelei....@oracle.com> wrote: > I'm not sure why the latest byte cannot be 0xFF? What about if my > content length is 256? For example: > > 677 if (lowByte == -1) { > 678 throw new IOException("Incomplete BER/DER length info"); > 679 } > > Otherwise, looks fine to me. > > Xuelei > > On 10/11/2011 9:05 AM, Weijun Wang wrote: >> Webrev at http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~weijun/7099399/webrev.00/ >> >> Basically, we're now accepting X.509 block of 4-octets length. For >> simplicity, the highest byte must be <= 127, so that the length can be >> expressed with a 32-bit int. >> >> Thanks >> Max >> >> >> -------- Original Message -------- >> *Change Request ID*: 7099399 >> *Synopsis*: cannot deal with CRL file larger than 16MB >> >> Product: java >> Category: java >> Subcategory: classes_security >> Type: Defect >> >> === *Description* >> ============================================================ >> The X.509 impl of CertificateFactory only parses X.509 blocks smaller >> than 16MB, i.e. when the length can be encoded in 3 octets. Now we have >> a customer whose CRL file is as big as 30MB. >> >