Re: cvs commit: squid/src MemBuf.c

Alex Rousskov wrote:
>
> On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
>
> > What about this simple API change: A function to return a MemBuf
> > as a C string instead of accessing MemBuf->buf directly and
> > assuing it is a string as is done today in many places... This
> > function then ensures that the buffer is \0 terminated before
> > returning a char * pointer to the "string".
>
> Yes, having both terminated buf.c_str() and raw buf.data() is a good
> approach.

But if it is really RAW memory, there is a very good chance its got
nulls in it. This is certainly the case with the NTLM
challange/response stuff. In samba we have a dump_data() procedure that
takes a pointer and a length, and produces a hex-editor like dump of the
data.

Andrew Bartlett

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