At 16:49 12/12/1998 +0900, =?euc-kr?B?wMy5zry3?= wrote: 

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<fontfamily><param>Arial</param>I am a C programmer and developing a
embedded browser with libwww5.0.</fontfamily> 

<fontfamily><param>Arial</param>I found that 'mail.yahoo.com' sent
message with wrong HTTP header format.</fontfamily> 

<fontfamily><param>Arial</param>When libwww5.0 access the yahoomail
site's url '/config/login?fg7q0r1g0srgo', the site</fontfamily> 

<fontfamily><param>Arial</param>response a redirection message with wrong
header format</fontfamily> 


<fontfamily><param>Arial</param>The location header field ends with two
LF characters.</fontfamily> 

<fontfamily><param>Arial</param>It must end with one LF characters to
continue sending header field.</fontfamily> 

<fontfamily><param>Arial</param>So libwww5.0 quits parsing header filed
at HTMIME.c</fontfamily> 

<fontfamily><param>Arial</param>But it seems like that netscape & IE
handles this exception.</fontfamily> 


<fontfamily><param>Arial</param>Does Any other version of libwww handle
this exception?</fontfamily> 

<fontfamily><param>Arial</param>I notified this log to server admin of
yahoomail, but they don't reply to me yet.</fontfamily> 

<fontfamily><param>Arial</param>How can the other browsers handle this
exception?</fontfamily> 

<fontfamily><param>Arial</param>I want know your opinion about this
exception.</fontfamily> 

<fontfamily><param>Arial</param>tia.</fontfamily> 

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<<<<<<<<

libwww picks up the redirection but doesn't pick up anything after that
as the header ends (caused by the two CRLFs). I am reluctant to try and
fix this - fixing the broken server is much better.


Another thing is that you should update to the latest libwww which you
can get from


	http://www.w3.org/Library/Distribution.html


Thanks,


Henrik

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Henrik Frystyk Nielsen,

World Wide Web Consortium

http://www.w3.org/People/Frystyk