KTorrent sending malformed extension command

[Greg Hazel]

Binary package hint: ktorrent

It appears KTorrent 3.3.4 and 4.0.0 (at least) have a bug when sending an extension command. This causes it to lose connections with other clients.

I caught this:

[2010-06-18 18:34:13.936] 1.2.3.4:50000(K): [KTorrent/4.0.0 (40.2)]: DEBUG: failed to parse extension command dict:
QS{⌐??V?♣7→ß>S??↕"°╒b#ÑeP↑░╟"→ßGφ┼⌂→≤Q?J÷‼?Rαg{╚╒OA☼┘ñ╩Wδ?'?I╒'?l?°U?^└Jñ^╨ZOp±├?╚ye-↑[÷↕▐S╕[├┐5

That looks pretty random, and nothing like bencoding. Maybe KTorrent has a protocol encryption buffer management bug?

[Maarten Bezemer (veger)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to look at all reported bugs in a timely manner. There have been many changes in Ubuntu since that time you reported the bug and your problem may have been fixed with some of the updates. It would help us a lot if you could test it on a currently supported Ubuntu version. When you test it and it is still an issue, kindly upload the updated logs by running apport-collect 596147 and any other logs that are relevant for this particular issue.

[Greg Hazel (ghazelgmail.com)]

Hahahahaha.

[Harald Sitter (apachelogger)]

I don't get it Oo

[Maarten Bezemer (veger)]

Me neither...
I'll leave status at incomplete and hope that an update about the status of this bug will be provided

[Greg Hazel (ghazelgmail.com)]

I don't run Ubuntu, so asking me to test the latest version doesn't make any sense. I was offering a bug report on KTorrent, which has either been fixed or it hasn't. Tracking it is up to you, not me.

If you don't want to track the bug, feel free to close this. I don't care.

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

Well, you are in the K/Ubuntu bugtracker...

If you wanted to report a bug to the KTorrent people themselves, then you can find them at bugs.kde.org.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for ktorrent (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]