Bug#196431: axel crashes on long urls

To: Joseph Barillari <jbarilla@princeton.edu>, 196431@bugs.debian.org
Cc: control@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Bug#196431: axel crashes on long urls
From: Y Giridhar Appaji Nag <giridhar@appaji.net>
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 15:55:40 +0530
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tags 196431 +confirmed
thanks

Axel currently cannot handle strings of length over 256 (MAX_STRING in
axel.h) and should exit gracefully.  Fix forthcoming.

Giridhar

On 03/06/06 18:34 -0400, Joseph Barillari said ...
> 
> Note that that ultra-long URL is valid. If the URL is invalid (e.g., a

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