The answer is it depends. In general it should return an error, but I would
not rule out crashing. If you have a trace of such a crash, pray share as
that helps improve the code.
Paul.

On 10/3/07, Gabi Mahu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
> I am using mmsbox, mmsproxy and mmsrelay without any problems in a small
> project, a small application that sends a constructed MMS to mmsbox. I just
> have some questions regarding the behavior of Mbuni when a malformed MMS is
> sent to mmsbox. When I say malformed, I mean any kind of multipart headers
> or multipart content errors.
>
> At some point, due to some bugs, the MMS message that was created by the
> application was corrupted. Everything that was between the multipart
> boundaries (where headers and content for an images should have been, for
> example...), except the pair of \r\n, was missing. Mmsbox crashed due to a
> segmentation fault, caused by some string manipulation for the empty
> multipart.
>
> The code that generates the MMS is out of my reach now, so I can't answer
> my question by modifying the way the MMS is created and observing mmsbox
> reactions. And the application seams to works without a flaw now, so....
> That is way I am writing this email.
>
> So, if someone could please explain how does mmsbox react when a corrupt
> MMS arrives? It forwards the MMS to mmsc, even though it doesn't
> "understand" it (it can't parse it, or finds some bad headers...), and
> responds with 200ok, or discards the message and answers with some 4xx code,
> or what? (I did leave out "it crashes" on purpose, because I hope that is
> not the case...)
>
>
> Thank you for your time
> Gabi Mahu
>
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