Re: NPN_PostURLNotify treating my headers as data

I should have searched bugzilla: need to have my own Content-Length custom header as well:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=457916

That works.

On Sep 18, 2012, at 2:16 PM, Rudi Sherry wrote:

> More info: Chrome works just fine.
> 
> On Sep 18, 2012, at 10:28 AM, Rudi Sherry wrote:
> 
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I am having trouble adding headers to a POST using NPN_PostURLNotify in Firefox 15.0.1.  As far as I know I'm using NPN_PostURLNotify correctly, but it is putting my header in the data section of the POST.
>> 
>> I tried two ways: one with a memory buffer and one with a file, with the same results.
>> 
>> I have tried both '\n' and '\r\n' with the same results.
>> 
>> Firefox 14.0.1, for memory buffer, shows the same results (I didn't try the file for that).
>> 
>> Is there something I'm missing?
>> 
>> ("instance" is my NPP instance).
>> 
>> // Use Memory Buffer
>> NPError err = NPERR_NO_ERROR;
>> static const char *sHeaders = "Custom:\tfoobar\nCookie:\tfoobar\n\nPostData\n";
>> NPError err = NPN_PostURLNotify( instance,
>>       "http://host.com/home.html", NULL,
>>       strlen(sHeaders), sHeaders, false, (void *) 1000 );
>> 
>> 
>> // Use file
>> static const char *sFilename = "C:\\Temp\\tempdata.txt<smb://Temp//tempdata.txt>";
>> static const char *sCustomHeader = "Custom:\tfoobar\n";
>> static const char *sCookieHeader = "Cookie:\tfoobar\n";
>> static const char *sLF = "\n";
>> static const char *sPostData = "PostData\n";
>> FILE *f = NULL;
>> errno_t ferr = fopen_s( &f, sFilename, "wb" );
>> if ( ferr == 0 && f != NULL )
>> {
>>   fwrite( sCustomHeader, 1, strlen(sCustomHeader), f );
>>   fwrite( sCookieHeader, 1, strlen(sCookieHeader), f );
>>   fwrite( sLF, 1, strlen(sLF), f );
>>   fwrite( sPostData, 1, strlen(sPostData), f );
>>   fclose( f );
>>   NPError err = NPN_PostURLNotify( instance, "http://host.com/home.html",
>>                 NULL, strlen(sFilename), sFilename, true, (void *) 1000 );
>> }
>> 
>> 
>> // Fiddler shows this for both:
>> 
>> POST http://host.com/home.html HTTP/1.1
>> Host: host.com<http://host.com>
>> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:15.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/15.0.1
>> Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
>> Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
>> Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
>> Connection: keep-alive
>> Content-length: 41
>> 
>> Custom:    foobar
>> Cookie:    foobar
>> 
>> PostData
>> 
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