From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2003-07-27T23:34:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Bug in Net::HTTP

Hello,

In message "Bug in Net::HTTP"
    on 03/07/27, Philip Mak <pmak@aaanime.net> writes:

|Net::HTTP will crash if the remote HTTP server returns a Content-Range
|header without a Content-Length header. I have attached a program that
|will reproduce the bug. The program has a self-contained dummy HTTP
|server that listens on localhost 12345. It then connects to that
|server using Net::HTTP, which feeds Net::HTTP a response containing a
|Content-Range header without a Content-Length header, causing it to
|crash due to the bug.

The following patch seems to work.  It still need to be confirmed by
the maintainer.

							matz.

--- lib/net/http.rb	2 Jul 2003 02:05:35 -0000	1.86
+++ lib/net/http.rb	27 Jul 2003 14:33:12 -0000
@@ -1146,3 +1146,3 @@ module Net
       r = self.content_range
-      r and r.length
+      r and r.end - r.begin
     end