Re: segfaults calling soup_cookie_new with cookie domain = NULL

[Jérémy Lal <kapouer melix org>]

> On 27/03/2009 16:45, Dan Winship wrote:
> > Jérémy Lal wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > using libsoup2.4 (2.25) and libsoup2.4 (2.26.0)
> > > i just got a segfault doing that :
> > >
> > > const char* fDomain = NULL;
> > > const char* fPath = NULL;
> > > SoupCookie* fCookie = soup_cookie_new(cookieName, cookieValue, fDomain,
> > > fPath, SOUP_COOKIE_MAX_AGE_ONE_HOUR);
> > > soup_cookie_jar_add_cookie(fCookieJar, fCookie);
> > >
> > > no segfault with
> > > fDomain = "";
> >
> > Yeah... the documentation is wrong. You're not really allowed to have a
> > cookie with a NULL domain. soup_cookie_new() lets you do this, but as
> > you noticed, other methods assume all cookies have a domain set. Note
> > that the cookie "domain" is not completely equivalent to the "domain"
> > attribute in a Set-Cookie header; even if the Set-Cookie had no domain
> > attribute, the cookie still needs to have a domain value set, containing
> > the hostname that the cookie came from.
> indeed,
> i forgot to mention that the problem was in the documentation, not in thecode
> > Why are you creating your own cookies by hand, btw?
> good question, as i'm having troubles here :
> in a small program, i'm using webkit to load a php page which is served on localhost,
> so i call webkit_web_view_load_uri function.
> i want to populate the http headers with a Cookie: field
> so that the php page gets the cookie.
> The only object i found exposed by webkit was SoupSession (webkit_get_default_session).
> The following code hangs, and i don't get why. I'm new to gtk and stuff.
> What's weird is that it does not hang if i set domain != "localhost"
> But in that case the php page won't get the cookie, so it's useless.
>
>
> SoupSession* fSession = webkit_get_default_session();
> SoupCookieJar* fCookieJar = soup_cookie_jar_new();
> soup_session_add_feature(fSession, SOUP_SESSION_FEATURE(fCookieJar));
> SoupCookie* fCookie = soup_cookie_new(cookiename, cookievalue, "localhost", "/", 1);
> soup_cookie_jar_add_cookie(fCookieJar, fCookie);
>
> (then, i call
> webkit_web_view_load_uri(webview, gURL);
> gtk_main();)
>
> i know i'm probably wrong doing this, but i'm a bit short of examples.
>
> Jérémy.

Also i forgot to mention some fact :
the program is called by lighttpd+fastcgi.
it works ok when called from the command line.
it hangs when called (with same arguments) from fastcgi setup.