Changeset 7014

Timestamp:

Nov 1, 2008, 10:09:16 PM (12 years ago)

Author:

charles

Message:

(daemon) when serving deflated output, strip off the first 2 and last 4 bytes from deflate()'s output, for reasons described at ​http://carsten.codimi.de/gzip.yaws/

File:

• trunk/libtransmission/rpc-server.c (modified) (1 diff)

trunk/libtransmission/rpc-server.c

@@ -261 +261 @@
         {
             EVBUFFER_LENGTH( out ) = content_len - stream.avail_out;
+
+            /* http://carsten.codimi.de/gzip.yaws/
+               It turns out that some browsers expect deflated data without
+               the first two bytes (a kind of header) and and the last four
+               bytes (an ADLER32 checksum). This format can of course
+               be produced by simply stripping these off. */
+            if( EVBUFFER_LENGTH( out ) >= 6 ) {
+                EVBUFFER_LENGTH( out ) -= 4;
+                evbuffer_drain( out, 2 );
+            }
+
             tr_ninf( MY_NAME, _( "Deflated response from %zu bytes to %zu" ),
                               content_len,