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From: John Ryan <jryan@kgv.edu.hk>
To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
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Subject: Re: Please help: Buffers
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Hi Alfred,  I've found a real easy way to reproduce the problem.  Just run
`cat` and try and input more than 1024 characters.

Regards
John Ryan


On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, Alfred Perlstein wrote:

> * John Ryan <jryan@kgv.edu.hk> [000309 21:58] wrote:
> > Hi Alfred,
> > 
> > Matthew's script doesn't need a browser.  you can run it from the command
> > line in UNIX.  The same program run under Linux doesn't exhibit this
> > problem.
> 
> I can't reproduce this:
> 
> t.pl has your script in it...
> 
> ~ % lptest 2000 5 | sed 's/ //g' | wc            
>        5       5    9900
> ~ % lptest 2000 5 | sed 's/ //g' | perl t.pl | wc
>        5       5    9900
> ~ % uname -srm
> FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE i386
> 
> how are you running this script?
> 
> please give a better way to reproduce this.
> 
> -Alfred
> 
> > 
> > Regards
> > John Ryan
> > System Manager
> > King George V School
> > 
> > <On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> > 
> > > * Matthew Enger <menger@student.kgv.edu.hk> [000309 18:23] wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > Hello,
> > > > 
> > > > At the school I am attending we are running Squid 2.3.STABLE1 on FreeBSD 3.4-
> > > > STABLE with cyberpatrol filters. We reciently discovered that if the URL 
> > > > entred into the squid redirect program for cyberpatrol is over 1024 
> > > > characters the program will not recieve any more text. This is causing 
> > > > problems for some URI's being accessed through our proxy which are (for some 
> > > > odd reason) longer then 1024 characters.
> > > > 
> > > > I wrote a perl script below to act as a redirector and it is having the same 
> > > > problem:
> > > > 
> > > > #!/usr/bin/perl
> > > > 
> > > > $|=1;
> > > > use strict;
> > > > 
> > > > while (<>) {
> > > > 	my @X = split;
> > > > 	my $url = $X[0];
> > > > 	chomp $url;
> > > > 
> > > >         print "$url\n";
> > > > }
> > > > 
> > > > Does anyone know how I can change this limit for both C (the cyberpatrol 
> > > > program) and perl programs?
> > > 
> > > You're not mentioning which browser you are using, but i know that 
> > > some if not all versions of MSIE don't work with URLs longer than
> > > 1024 characters.
> > > 
> > > -Alfred
> > > 
> > > 
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> > > 
> 
> -- 
> -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org]
> 



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