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[Wilmer van der Gaast <wilmer AT gaast.net>]

Sorry for interrupting, but I found your message through Google, about 
the troubles between libsoup and the MSN servers.

"The pending Bitlbee (bug #4633) uses it... although it seems to work 
without the patch."

On many fast machines (or slow machines with a slow Internet 
connection) it seems to work indeed. On my XP1700+ an unpatched libsoup 
with BitlBee works. But when I run exactly the same code on my P2-350 
server, it fails to connect. Also, when I put a little more load on my 
XP1700+, suddenly BitlBee fails.

The problem is, libsoup usually waits until bytes_received == 
total_length, but if the machine is a bit slower and the buffer fills 
to quickly (for some reason the MSN/passport servers send more data 
than they promise) bytes_receieved > total_length, which makes libsoup 
get stuck in some kind of loop and give up eventually.

So all my little patch does is using >= instead of == in that check.


Just FYI,

Wilmer van der Gaast.

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