Commit 70ad8a0b authored by Daniel Stenberg's avatar Daniel Stenberg
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Using CURLOPT_POST without using CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS caused us to strlen() 

a NULL pointer. Now, we treat a missing CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS as if there is
no data to send.
parent cec8a3af

lib/http.c

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@@ -764,6 +764,17 @@ CURLcode Curl_http(struct connectdata *conn) 
      if(HTTPREQ_POST == data->httpreq) {

        /* this is the simple POST, using x-www-form-urlencoded style */



        if(!data->postfields) {

          /*

           * This is an attempt to do a POST without having anything to

           * actually send. Let's make a NULL pointer equal "" here. Good/bad

           * ?

           */

          data->postfields = "";

          data->postfieldsize = 0; /* it might been set to something illegal,

                                      anything > 0 would be! */

        }



        if(!checkheaders(data, "Content-Length:"))

          /* we allow replacing this header, although it isn't very wise to

             actually set your own */