Program cores on subsequent downloads

Hi,

I have a GUI app which performs a file download from some URL.  I have a
C++ class which wraps some of the libwww functions to perform the actual
download.

I am able to download the file successfully on the first try, or on
subsequent tries.  However, the program will eventually core in the
libwww code as followed:

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
HTTPCleanup (req=0x1175290, status=200) at HTTP.c:159
159         if (http->timer) {
Current language:  auto; currently c
(gdb) bt
#0  HTTPCleanup (req=0x1175290, status=200) at HTTP.c:159
#1  0x7e15e4 in HTTPEvent (soc=0, pVoid=0x11aabd0, type=HTEvent_CLOSE)
    at HTTP.c:1277
#2  0x802d24 in HTNet_kill (net=0x11782e8) at HTNet.c:989
#3  0x802de4 in HTNet_killAll () at HTNet.c:1015
#4  0x800b9c in HTLibTerminate () at HTLib.c:190
#5  0x7cc784 in HTProfile_delete () at HTProfil.c:47
#6  0x1825e4 in HRWWWTransferInterfaceImpl::cleanup (this=0x116ed78,
    request=@0xefffeab4) at
../../../Interface/WWWTransferInterface.C:427

The code in my download function is:

HRError
HRWWWTransferInterfaceImpl::getFile(
    const RWCString & strURL,
    const RWCString & strOutputFilename,
    HRProgressMonitor *pProgress /* = NULL */)
{
    FILE* outputFile = NULL;
    int   status =     0;

    // Initialisation
    HTSetTraceMessageMask("sop");       // Show all traces
    HTRequest * request = HTRequest_new();
    HTRequest_setOutputFormat(request, DEFAULT_FORMAT);
    HTRequest_setContext (request, (void*)this);

    HTProfile_newNoCacheClient(APP_NAME, HISTORISK_RELEASE_STRING);

    // If we crap out before calling the terminate callback with a
successful
    // load, we want some sort of general failure
    i_errStatus = HRERR_INIT_FAILURE;

    i_pProgress = pProgress;

    // Capture output and trace messages
    HTPrint_setCallback(printerCB);
    HTTrace_setCallback(tracerCB);

    // Delete the default Username/password handler and replace it with
our own.
    HTAlert_deleteOpcode(HT_A_USER_PW);
    HTAlert_add(usernameAndPasswordCB, HT_A_USER_PW);

    // Add default content decoder. We insert a through line as it
doesn't
    // matter that we get an encoding that we don't know.
    HTFormat_addCoding("*", HTIdentityCoding, HTIdentityCoding, 0.3);

    HTParentAnchor * anchor = (HTParentAnchor *)
HTAnchor_findAddress(strURL);

    // Delete the default progress notification  handler and replace it
with our own.
    HTAlert_deleteOpcode(HT_A_PROGRESS);
    HTAlert_add(progressNotifyCB, HT_A_PROGRESS);

    outputFile = fopen(strOutputFilename, "wb");
    if (outputFile == NULL)
    {
        cleanup(request);
        i_errStatus = HRERR_CANT_OPEN_FILE;
        i_errStatus << strOutputFilename;
        i_errStatus.logError();
        return i_errStatus;
    }

    HTRequest_setOutputStream(
        request,
        HTFWriter_new(request, outputFile, YES));

    // Set event timeout
    HTHost_setEventTimeout(i_timeoutSeconds * MILLI_PER_SEC);

    // Make sure that the first request is flushed immediately and not
    // buffered in the output buffer
    // Note (marka) I'm not sure if this is necessary, it was copied
straight
    //              out of the libwww example
//    HTRequest_setFlush(request, YES);

    // Add our own filter to update the history list
    HTNet_addAfter(terminateCB, NULL, NULL, HT_ALL, HT_FILTER_LAST);

    // Start the request
    status = HTLoadAnchor((HTAnchor *) anchor, request);


    if (status != YES)
    {
        cleanup(request);
        i_errStatus = HRERR_WWW_NO_SERVER;
        i_errStatus.logError();
        return i_errStatus;
    }

    // Go into the event loop...
    HTEventList_loop(request);

    HTEventList_unregisterAll();
    cleanup(request);
    return i_errStatus;
}

where my terminate handler is

int
HRWWWTransferInterfaceImpl::terminateCB(
    HTRequest * request,
    HTResponse * response,
    void * param,
    int status)
{
    ...
    HTEventList_stopLoop();
    return HT_OK;
}

and the cleanup function contains

void
HRWWWTransferInterfaceImpl::cleanup(HTRequest * & request)
{
    if (request != NULL)
    {
        HTRequest_delete(request);
        request = NULL;
    }
    HTProfile_delete();
}

Does anyone know whether there is a bug in the library or whether I did
something wrong?  I am using the wwwlib 5.2.8 source and the system is
UNIX on Solaris 2.6.

Thanks,
Warren Ho

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Warren Ho                                       Algorithmics Inc.
Software Engineer                               185 Spadina Avenue
email: warrenh@algorithmics.com                 Toronto, Ontario
phone: (416)-217-4353                           Canada   M5T 2C6

Received on Friday, 12 May 2000 17:45:03 UTC