[tpop3d-discuss] a silly question

[Ivan Matveyev]

On Tue, 18 Feb 2003, Chris Lightfoot wrote:

> > > > > How so? Can you not parse a string containing embedded \0
> > > > > with PHP? That sounds a bit unlikely.
> > > > Maybe I'm dumb, but the '\0' symbol ceased input to stdin.
> > > Hmm. Interesting. Probably a question for a PHP group -- I
> > > know very little about it.
> > To say truth, that would be a 'once made and forgotten' thing.
> > Are you still interested in php script example?
> > I could attach the modification of the function in auth_other.c
> Yeah, if you could send a patch to the list, that may be
> useful for future PHP / tpop3d users.

Here is the script and auth_other_send_request modifications. Do not ask
me questions on the code - I am satisfied that it even works. :-)


#!/usr/local/bin/php -q
<?
// That's the script which gets auth info from http url. I had to modify auth_other_send_request function
// (auth_other.c) to get the result. If you have any questions, mail hobot@moecho.org
/* auth_other_send_request:
 * Send the auth child a request consisting of several key/value pairs, as
 * above. Returns 1 on success or 0 on failure.
int auth_other_send_request(const int nvars, ...) {
    va_list ap;
    int i, ret = 0;
    char buffer[MAX_DATA_SIZE] = {0};
    char *p;
    size_t nn;

    if (!authchild_pid) return 0;

    va_start(ap, nvars);

    for (i = 0, p = buffer, nn = 0; i < nvars; ++i) {
        const char *key, *val;
        key = va_arg(ap, const char *);
        nn += strlen(key) + 1;
        if (nn > sizeof(buffer)) goto fail;
        memcpy(p, key, strlen(key));
        p += strlen(key);
    memcpy(p,"=",1);
    p++;

        val = va_arg(ap, const char *);
        nn += strlen(val) + 1;
        if (nn > sizeof(buffer)) goto fail;
        memcpy(p, val, strlen(val));
        p += strlen(val);
    memcpy(p,"\t",1);
    p++;

    }
    if(strlen(buffer)<400)
    {
    for(i=strlen(buffer);i<400;i++)
        {
        memcpy(p,"\0",1);
        p++;
        nn++;
        }
    }
    if (nn > sizeof(buffer)) {
        log_print(LOG_ERR, _("auth_other_send_request: total size of request would exceed %d bytes"), sizeof(buffer));
        goto fail;
    }

    /* Since write operations are atomic, this will either succeed entirely or
     * fail. In the latter case, it may be with EAGAIN because the child
     * process is blocking; we interpret this as a protocol error.
    if (try_write(authchild_wr, buffer, nn)) ret = 1;
    else {
        if (errno == EAGAIN)
            log_print(LOG_ERR, _("auth_other_send_request: write: write on pipe blocked; killing child"));
        else
            log_print(LOG_ERR, _("auth_other_send_request: write: %m; killing child"));
        auth_other_kill_child();
    }

fail:
    va_end(ap);

    return ret;
}
*/


error_reporting(0);
set_time_limit(0);

function array_get($what,$array)
        {
        foreach($array as $val)
                {
                if(ereg("^".$what,$val))
                        {
                        list($none,$value)=split("=",$val);
                        return $value;
                        }
                }
        }

function logs($in)
        {
	$what=date("D M j G:i:s T Y ").$in."\n";
	$fp = fopen ("pop-auth.log","a");
	fwrite ($fp,$what);
	fclose($fp);
	}

function stdout($what)
    {
    $stdout=fopen("php://stdout","w");
    fwrite($stdout,$what);
    fclose($stdout);
    }


$stdin=fopen("php://stdin","r");
$term=fgets($stdin,399);
while($term)
{
$vars=split("\t",$term);
$username=array_get("user",$vars);
$password=array_get("pass",$vars);
$ip=array_get("clienthost",$vars);


        $string="http://some.url/which/echoes/YES_or_NO_via_get_vars.php?username=$username&password=$password";
	$tmp=file($string);
	$answer=str_replace("\n","",$tmp[0]);
	if($answer=="YES")
	    {
	    stdout("result\0YES\0uid\0mail\0gid\0mail\0\0");
	    }
	    if($answer=="NO")
		{
		stdout("result\0NO\0\0");
		}
$term=fgets($stdin,399);
}
fclose($stdin);
?>


-- 
Ivan Matveyev, Zebra Telecom
Tech Dept, +7(095)741-0001