On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 19:55, Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Jul 2004, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> 
> > While I've been trying to code up the 'Negotiate' (SPNEGO) support for
> > Squid, I have seen a lot of:
> > 
> >         ntlm_request->authchallenge = xstrndup(reply, NTLM_CHALLENGE_SZ
> > + 5);
> 
> As robert already said, there is no reason xstrdup should not be used 
> here, and I also suspect many of these copies should go away completely 
> when we get rid of the challenge/response cache.

Good.

> > These worry me - not only are these packets not fixed size, Squid has no
> > way of knowing what they should be!
> 
> Correct. Squid has no business trying to guess the properties of the
> exchanged blobs.

It seems a pattern to avoid xstrdup(), so as to avoid the client
allocating 50MB of memory in headers.  Are there other checks on this,
or do we just need to define a (larger) constant?

Thanks,

Andrew Bartlett

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