Bug 1076582 - ab breaks with long cookies
Summary: ab breaks with long cookies
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Status: CLOSED EOL
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: httpd
Version: 20
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jan Kaluža
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2014-03-14 15:12 UTC by Kambiz Aghaiepour
Modified: 2015-06-29 19:28 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2015-06-29 19:28:05 UTC
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Description Kambiz Aghaiepour 2014-03-14 15:12:25 UTC
Description of problem:

Attempting to use the "ab" utility against a site with large cookies (> 2048 characters) does not work.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
2.4.7

How reproducible:
Also filed:
   https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56262

Steps to Reproduce:
horizonhost=$1
username=$2
password=$3

url=http://$horizonhost

tmpfile=`mktemp /tmp/horizonXXXXXX`
cookies=`mktemp /tmp/cookiesXXXXXX`
cookies2=`mktemp /tmp/cookies2XXXXXX`
results=`mktemp /tmp/resultsXXXXXX`
postfile=`mktemp /tmp/postfileXXXXXX`

wget --save-headers --keep-session-cookies --save-cookies=$cookies -q -O - $url > $tmpfile

region=`grep 'name="region" value=' $tmpfile  | awk -F\" '{ print $6 }' | sed -e 's/:/%3A/g' -e 's,/,%2F,g'`

token=`grep csrfmiddlewaretoken $tmpfile | sed "s/.*value='\(.*\)'.*/\1/g"`

echo "csrfmiddlewaretoken=$token&region=$region&username=$username&password=$password" > $postfile

wget --save-headers -q -O - --load-cookies=$cookies --keep-session-cookies --save-cookies=$cookies2 --post-data="csrfmiddlewaretoken=$token&region=$region&username=$username&password=$password" $url/dashboard/auth/login/ > $results

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At this point, attempt to use ab as such:

ab -v4 -n 1 -H 'Cookie: sessionid=< place the sessionid from $cookies2 here, including double quotes>; csrftoken=< place the csrftoken from $cookies2>' $url/dashboard/admin/

and note that the cookie is not fully getting sent.

I've attempted increasing the hardcoded value in ab.c for:

char _request[2048];

and this seems to get me slightly further in that I see the initial 200 OK from the server, however, somewhere else (perhaps in the apr libraries?) something is truncating the reply back from the server, and subsequent cookies are malformed.

Actual results:


Expected results:


Additional info:

Comment 1 Fedora Admin XMLRPC Client 2014-06-30 09:54:13 UTC
This package has changed ownership in the Fedora Package Database.  Reassigning to the new owner of this component.

Comment 2 Jan Kaluža 2014-09-04 10:54:31 UTC
Committed upstream: http://svn.apache.org/r1622450

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