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[PATCH] http.c: use CURLOPT_RANGE for range requests

From
David Turner <dturner@twopensource.com>
Date
Oct 30, 2015, 22:41 UTC
Message-ID
<1446244888-32610-1-git-send-email-dturner@twopensource.com>

A HTTP server is permitted to return a non-range response to a HTTP range request (and Apache httpd in fact does this in some cases). While libcurl knows how to correctly handle this (by skipping bytes before and after the requested range), it only turns on this handling if it is aware that a range request is being made. By manually setting the range header instead of using CURLOPT_RANGE, we were hiding the fact that this was a range request from libcurl. This could cause corruption.

Signed-off-by: David Turner <dturner@twopensource.com>
---
 http.c | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/http.c b/http.c
index 0f924a8..303b388 100644
--- a/http.c
+++ b/http.c
@@ -1202,8 +1202,9 @@ static int http_request(const char *url,
 			curl_easy_setopt(slot->curl, CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION,
 					 fwrite);
 			if (posn > 0) {
-				strbuf_addf(&buf, "Range: bytes=%ld-", posn);
-				headers = curl_slist_append(headers, buf.buf);
+				strbuf_addf(&buf, "%ld-", posn);
+				curl_easy_setopt(slot->curl, CURLOPT_RANGE,
+						 &buf.buf);
 				strbuf_reset(&buf);
 			}
 		} else
-- 
2.4.2.691.g714732c-twtrsrc
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