[hobbit] Hobbit client data truncated by server?!

[Ralph Mitchell]

>From src/bb.h in bb18b3:

    #define MAXLINE  8192   /* CHANGED FROM 256 - MAX LINE SIZE */

This definition is used multiple places, including:

   static char msgbuf[MAXLINE];   /* INCOMING MESSAGE BUFFER */

and

   strcat(msgbuf, "\n\n... DATA TRUNCATED ...\n"); /* 25 chars ! */

after discovering that the message length is bigger than MAXLINE+30.


Ralph Mitchell


On 5/29/06, Henrik Stoerner <henrik at hswn.dk> wrote:
>
> Somewhat late reply, but I'm cleaning up mails prior to the 4.2 release.
>
> Since you see the "... DATA TRUNCATED ..." string inside the client
> message,
> I have a strong suspicion that it was sent with the "bb" utility from
> the original Big Brother package.
>
> This text doesn't appear anywhere in the Hobbit code :-)
>
>
> Regards,
> Henrik
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 01:54:42PM +0100, Mirko Saam wrote:
> > Hi,
> > after reading the docs, searching the list, searching the source
> > code i have no idea, what is going wrong here:
> >
> > Data that is sent by the hobbit client is truncated somewhere.
> > My Hobbit client messages are about 30kB.
> > The client sents the message to the server without loss (verified with
> netcat).
> >
> > Monitoring the client channel via
> >   [clientlogger]
> >   CMD hobbitd_channel --channel=client cat
> > in hobbitlaunch.cfg results in:
> > >
> > >DATADATADATA
> > >DATADATADATA
> > >DATADATAD
> > >
> > >... DATA TRUNCATED ...
> > >
> > The received data is cut at approx 10kB. All MSG_* variables that limit
> > communication are clearly above this value (MSG_CLIENT=256*1024). I have
> > set anything to debug with no results. I did not find the place in the
> source
> > code where the "DATA TRUNCATED" message is generated, so i can't trace
> back
> > why it is truncated...
> >
> > Help me please!
> >
> > Regards,
> > Mirko
> >
> >
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