Yay for missing this email.

On Friday 24 September 2010 22:19:21 James Vega wrote:
> Specifically for non-HTML responses from FTP sites, we could split the
> response on newlines and examine each line on its own (like the attached
> patch).  This would prevent sloppy regexes from slurping up multiple
> lines.

Yes, I think that's a good way to fix this bug.

> I wouldn't be comfortable doing this with the http:// watch lines or
> HTML responses from ftp:// watch lines though since those are more
> likely to not be nicely contained to a single physical line.

Agreed.
I should review the code one of this days, but uscan shouldn't allow a regex 
to swallow some html (XSS anyone?).

Cheers,
-- 
Raphael Geissert - Debian Developer
www.debian.org - get.debian.net



-- 
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org
with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Reply via email to