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Re: Memory leakage problem with GoAhead web server


On 2007-06-06, Grant Edwards <grante@visi.com> wrote:
> On 2007-06-06, John Mills <johnmills@speakeasy.net> wrote:
>
> Firstly, the goahead newsgroup is probably a good place to
> look. There are a number of thread about memory leaks and how
> to fix them.
>
> nttp://news.goahead.com/goahead.public.webserver
>
>>  [http://sourceware.org/ml/ecos-discuss/2003-01/msg00045.html]

I think I was referring to this problem from the above newsgroup:

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Message-ID: <3AA29C31.385A367@attglobal.net>
[...]

I implemented this suggestion under Windows 2000 and now GoAhead traps when
loading home.asp.  Does not trap with a html page (vs. asp) (at least not
with the one I tested with).

Kris Blackmarr wrote:

> The following was received directly from a developer in Sweden.  GoAhead
> has not yet tested the suggested fix.
>
> Memory leak in file webs.c, in case of "basic" authorization:
> In function websParseRequest, 6 lines after following if-sentence:
> if (gstricmp(wp->authType, T("basic"))..
>
> The struct element wp->authType is now filled with new alloced memory
> without freeing the previous pointer. Suggest:
>                                         bfree(B_L, wp->authType);
>
> before the line:
>
> wp->authType = bstrdup(B_L, value);
>
> --Kris Blackmarr
>   GoAhead Software

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