Ryzom

libwww under linux is segfaulting
I imagine most people on windows are using the externals libwww which probably doesn't have the issue,
since i believe it has memory leaks/leaks file descriptors?.

the first issue is a bug in libwww, unfortunately after fixing the bug in libwww,
we end up segfaulting in a different way, because
libwww_nel_stream.cpp is abusing the libwww api by passing a CIFile* fp, instead of a FILE , to HTChannel_new,
with the leaking of file descriptors fixed in libwww, this tries to close the FILE * (actually a CIFile), which causes a new issue,
this one caused by client.
and all of the libwww_nel_stream.cpp callbacks are assuming CIFile * :/

I imagine that the leaking of file descriptors is what caused all this in the first place,

anyhow, if the plan is to remove libwww usage and replace it with curl + some parser,
it is probably easier to do that than to fix the libwww code that is there.

this segfault only seems to affect the usage of file:/ URL's

so a possible workaround is to temporarily exit early if lookupLocalFile returns true at group_html.cpp:2682
and slap a comment on there that this is a temporary non-solution.
another non-solution is to give bad file urls e.g. "file://" + "stopsegfaultingdangit" + path
this causes the whole thing to bail out before we get into the file descriptor madness since the file doesn't exist...

Anyways I sorta think any more effort on this is better spent towards replacing it than fixing it :(