lib/url.c patch for '/http' malformed url?

As discussed at http://www.xymon.com/archive/2006/07/msg00515.html:

On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 06:50:19PM +0200, Nicolas wrote:

It doesn t like the "%3a" strings.

Apparently not. OK, so this will require a code change. For a 
quick fix, you can edit the lib/url.c file in your Hobbit source.
Around line 560-570 or so you'll see these lines:

        if (poststart) getescapestring(poststart, &bburl->postdata, NULL);
        if (expstart)  getescapestring(expstart, &bburl->expdata, NULL);

        p = strstr(urlstart, "/http");         <--- find this line
        if (p) {
                proxystart = urlstart;
                urlstart = (p+1);
                *p = '\0';
        }

        parse_url(urlstart, bburl->desturl);

Replace the line I've marked with

        p = NULL;

That will simply disable the proxy url function, and your original URL
should work as intended.


Regards,
Henrik
 

Hi Henrik,

Obviously it's not the ":" and I wish I would've searched the mailing list 
earlier ;)

    # /usr/libexec/hobbit/server/bin/bbtest-net
    2010-10-08 14:31:38 Malformed URL - no 'scheme:' in 'http-proxy-tcp'
    2010-10-08 14:31:38 Invalid URL for http test - ignored: 
    cont=postgresql;http://my.athabascau.ca/http-proxy-tcp;0
     
Changed that to:

    cont=postgresql;http://my.athabascau.ca/tohack;0

and it works well.


Do you have any plans to release an update?

Thanks,
Viorel