Hi,

On Fri, Sep 27, 2019 at 05:44:09AM -0400, astre wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I trying to print the requested URL path. For that I came across the "uri"
> member which is of type ngx_str_t) under ngx_http_request_t structure. When
> I print the "uri" using ngx_log_debug1 (ngx_log_debug1(NGX_LOG_DEBUG_HTTP,
> log, 0, "%s", r->uri.data)) I see some extra data printed.
>
> For eg. when http://localhost/test is requested, "/test HTTP/1.1 Host" is
> printed.
>
> In my understanding "uri.data" should have contained only "/test". The
> "uri.len" correctly shows the length as 5. The "data" member is unsigned
> char *data so while extracting the actual string do we need to consider the
> length in ngx_str_t ?

The %s format suggests that the string is null-terminated, which is not the
case for r->uri.data. There's a special format %V for printing ngx_str_t:

ngx_log_debug1(NGX_LOG_DEBUG_HTTP, log, 0, "%V", &r->uri);

For more information on ngx_str_t, see the dev guide:

http://nginx.org/en/docs/dev/development_guide.html#strings

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