Re: [libmicrohttpd] MHD_lookup_connection_value returns boundary

[Christian Grothoff]

On 05/22/2012 10:45 PM, address@hidden wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Im using libmhd from a not so old svn version. When I do the
> following:
>                         
> if(0 == strcmp(method, MHD_HTTP_METHOD_POST)){
>    const char* content_t = MHD_lookup_connection_value(c,
>      MHD_HEADER_KIND, "Content-Type");
>    fprintf(stderr, "'%s'\n", content_t);
> ...
>
> I get:
> 'multipart/form-data;
> boundary=---------------------------3503486491459979781761840034'
>
>  From my understanding, the MHD_lookup_connection_value should only
> return a 'multipart/form-data' null terminated. If that is true, what
> is going wrong?

Probably nothing.  HTTP sends the boundary for the content as part of 
the header.  Look at postprocessor.c:

>      (0 == strncasecmp (pp->content_type,
>                                  "multipart/mixed",
>                                  strlen ("multipart/mixed"))))

As you can see, we specifically use strncasecmp, not strcasecmp.

Happy hacking,

Christian