[Lynx-dev] Re: Bug#509321: lynx-cur: Visiting http://reddit.com/ causes segfault.

[Thomas Dickey]

On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 12:40:10PM +0100, Atsuhito Kohda wrote:
> Hi Aaron,
> 
> On Sun, 21 Dec 2008 18:50:38 +1000, Aaron Howell wrote:
> 
> > When you visit http://reddit.com/, either from the command line or from the 
> > goto option within Lynx,
> > Lynx crashes immediately with signal 11.
> > For this particular site, the problem can be worked around by adding www. 
> > to the url,
> > however the problem occurs with other sites as well, its just that this one 
> > is particularly easy to verify.
> 
> I confirmed the problem and forwarded this to the upstream.
> I hope this will be fixed soon.

It's a small fix:

--- WWW/Library/Implementation/HTFile.c.orig    Sun Dec  7 18:49:34 2008
+++ WWW/Library/Implementation/HTFile.c Mon Dec 22 22:46:33 2008
@@ -1336,8 +1336,10 @@
 {
     CompressFileType method = cftNone;

-    if (!strncasecomp(ct, "application/gzip", 16) ||
-       !strncasecomp(ct, "application/x-gzip", 18)) {
+    if (ct == 0) {
+       method = cftNone;
+    } else if (!strncasecomp(ct, "application/gzip", 16) ||
+              !strncasecomp(ct, "application/x-gzip", 18)) {
        method = cftGzip;
     } else if (!strncasecomp(ct, "application/compress", 20) ||
               !strncasecomp(ct, "application/x-compress", 22)) {


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