From 77ffe1508f26dcd84ecbe4c628eafe0fca7894a9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Christian Grothoff <christian@grothoff.org>
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2015 22:42:06 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] -add patch from Eugenio Perez

---
 ChangeLog                   | 4 +++-
 src/microhttpd/connection.c | 6 +++++-
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 51d0b965..12dc69f1 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,7 +1,9 @@
 Tue Nov  3 23:24:52 CET 2015
 	Undoing change from Sun Oct 25 15:29:23 CET 2015
 	as the original code was counter-intuitive but
-	correct, and the new code does break pipelining. -CG
+	correct, and the new code does break pipelining.
+	Ignore empty lines at the beginning of an HTTP
+	request (more tolerant implementation). -CG
 	Releasing libmicrohttpd 0.9.45. -CG
 
 Sat Oct 31 15:52:52 CET 2015
diff --git a/src/microhttpd/connection.c b/src/microhttpd/connection.c
index cf2ebdd0..6ec51383 100644
--- a/src/microhttpd/connection.c
+++ b/src/microhttpd/connection.c
@@ -2227,7 +2227,11 @@ MHD_connection_handle_idle (struct MHD_Connection *connection)
         {
         case MHD_CONNECTION_INIT:
           line = get_next_header_line (connection);
-          if (NULL == line)
+          /* Check for empty string, as we might want
+             to tolerate 'spurious' empty lines; also
+             NULL means we didn't get a full line yet. */
+          if ( (NULL == line) ||
+               (0 == strlen (line) ) )
             {
               if (MHD_CONNECTION_INIT != connection->state)
                 continue;