[email protected]'s fix that now uses checkprefix() instead of
strnequal() when the third argument was strlen(first argument) anyway.
This makes it less prone to errors. (Slightly edited by me)
diff --git a/lib/cookie.c b/lib/cookie.c
index 64d2650..23222f2 100644
--- a/lib/cookie.c
+++ b/lib/cookie.c
@@ -519,7 +519,7 @@
     char *lineptr;
     bool headerline;
     while(fgets(line, MAX_COOKIE_LINE, fp)) {
-      if(strnequal("Set-Cookie:", line, 11)) {
+      if(checkprefix("Set-Cookie:", line)) {
         /* This is a cookie line, get it! */
         lineptr=&line[11];
         headerline=TRUE;
@@ -587,8 +587,8 @@
 
 	    /* now check the left part of the path with the cookies path
 	       requirement */
-	    if(!co->path ||
-	       strnequal(path, co->path, strlen(co->path))) {
+           if(!co->path ||
+              checkprefix(co->path, path) ) {
 
 	       /* and now, we know this is a match and we should create an
 		  entry for the return-linked-list */
diff --git a/lib/formdata.c b/lib/formdata.c
index c883ec7..1b15e81 100644
--- a/lib/formdata.c
+++ b/lib/formdata.c
@@ -1218,7 +1218,7 @@
        */
       
       if(file->contenttype &&
-         !strnequal("text/", file->contenttype, 5)) {
+         !checkprefix("text/", file->contenttype)) {
         /* this is not a text content, mention our binary encoding */
         size += AddFormData(&form, "\r\nContent-Transfer-Encoding: binary", 0);
       }
diff --git a/lib/strequal.h b/lib/strequal.h
index 005bb3e..e63dc21 100644
--- a/lib/strequal.h
+++ b/lib/strequal.h
@@ -32,6 +32,10 @@
 #define strequal(a,b) curl_strequal(a,b)
 #define strnequal(a,b,c) curl_strnequal(a,b,c)
 
+/* checkprefix() is a shorter version of the above, used when the first
+   argument is zero-byte terminated */
+#define checkprefix(a,b)    strnequal(a,b,strlen(a))
+
 #ifndef HAVE_STRLCAT
 #define strlcat(x,y,z) Curl_strlcat(x,y,z)
 size_t Curl_strlcat(char *dst, const char *src, size_t siz);
diff --git a/lib/transfer.c b/lib/transfer.c
index 98477d7..bc7ff43 100644
--- a/lib/transfer.c
+++ b/lib/transfer.c
@@ -291,7 +291,7 @@
             k->hbuflen += nread;
             if (!k->headerline && (k->hbuflen>5)) {
               /* make a first check that this looks like a HTTP header */
-              if(!strnequal(data->state.headerbuff, "HTTP/", 5)) {
+              if(!checkprefix(data->state.headerbuff, "HTTP/")) {
                 /* this is not the beginning of a HTTP first header line */
                 k->header = FALSE;
                 k->badheader = HEADER_ALLBAD;
@@ -345,7 +345,7 @@
           if(!k->headerline) {
             /* the first read header */
             if((k->hbuflen>5) &&
-               !strnequal(data->state.headerbuff, "HTTP/", 5)) {
+               !checkprefix(data->state.headerbuff, "HTTP/")) {
               /* this is not the beginning of a HTTP first header line */
               k->header = FALSE;
               k->badheader = HEADER_PARTHEADER;
@@ -521,13 +521,13 @@
           }
 
           /* check for Content-Length: header lines to get size */
-          if (strnequal("Content-Length:", k->p, 15) &&
+          if (checkprefix("Content-Length:", k->p) &&
               sscanf (k->p+15, " %ld", &k->contentlength)) {
             conn->size = k->contentlength;
             Curl_pgrsSetDownloadSize(data, k->contentlength);
             }
           /* check for Content-Type: header lines to get the mime-type */
-          else if (strnequal("Content-Type:", k->p, 13)) {
+          else if (checkprefix("Content-Type:", k->p)) {
             char *start;
             char *end;
             int len;
@@ -597,7 +597,7 @@
             /* init our chunky engine */
             Curl_httpchunk_init(conn);
           }
-          else if (strnequal("Content-Encoding:", k->p, 17) &&
+          else if (checkprefix("Content-Encoding:", k->p) &&
                    data->set.encoding) {
             /*
              * Process Content-Encoding. Look for the values: identity, gzip,
@@ -614,18 +614,18 @@
                 start++);
 
             /* Record the content-encoding for later use. 08/27/02 jhrg */
-            if (strnequal("identity", start, 8))
+            if (checkprefix("identity", start))
               k->content_encoding = IDENTITY;
-            else if (strnequal("deflate", start, 7))
+            else if (checkprefix("deflate", start))
               k->content_encoding = DEFLATE;
-            else if (strnequal("gzip", start, 4) 
-                     || strnequal("x-gzip", start, 6))
+            else if (checkprefix("gzip", start) 
+                     || checkprefix("x-gzip", start))
               k->content_encoding = GZIP;
-            else if (strnequal("compress", start, 8) 
-                     || strnequal("x-compress", start, 10))
+            else if (checkprefix("compress", start) 
+                     || checkprefix("x-compress", start))
               k->content_encoding = COMPRESS;
           }
-          else if (strnequal("Content-Range:", k->p, 14)) {
+          else if (checkprefix("Content-Range:", k->p)) {
             if (sscanf (k->p+14, " bytes %d-", &k->offset) ||
                 sscanf (k->p+14, " bytes: %d-", &k->offset)) {
               /* This second format was added August 1st 2000 by Igor
@@ -638,11 +638,10 @@
             }
           }
           else if(data->cookies &&
-                  strnequal("Set-Cookie:", k->p, 11)) {
+                  checkprefix("Set-Cookie:", k->p)) {
             Curl_cookie_add(data->cookies, TRUE, k->p+11, conn->name);
           }
-          else if(strnequal("Last-Modified:", k->p,
-                            strlen("Last-Modified:")) &&
+          else if(checkprefix("Last-Modified:", k->p) &&
                   (data->set.timecondition || data->set.get_filetime) ) {
             time_t secs=time(NULL);
             k->timeofdoc = curl_getdate(k->p+strlen("Last-Modified:"),
@@ -652,7 +651,7 @@
           }
           else if ((k->httpcode >= 300 && k->httpcode < 400) &&
                    (data->set.http_follow_location) &&
-                   strnequal("Location:", k->p, 9)) {
+                   checkprefix("Location:", k->p)) {
             /* this is the URL that the server advices us to get instead */
             char *ptr;
             char *start=k->p;
diff --git a/lib/url.c b/lib/url.c
index edd2b3a..d64e9cb 100644
--- a/lib/url.c
+++ b/lib/url.c
@@ -1848,22 +1848,22 @@
       /* Note: if you add a new protocol, please update the list in
        * lib/version.c too! */
 
-      if(strnequal(conn->gname, "FTP", 3)) {
+      if(checkprefix("FTP", conn->gname)) {
         strcpy(conn->protostr, "ftp");
       }
-      else if(strnequal(conn->gname, "GOPHER", 6))
+      else if(checkprefix("GOPHER", conn->gname))
         strcpy(conn->protostr, "gopher");
 #ifdef USE_SSLEAY
-      else if(strnequal(conn->gname, "HTTPS", 5))
+      else if(checkprefix("HTTPS", conn->gname))
         strcpy(conn->protostr, "https");
-      else if(strnequal(conn->gname, "FTPS", 4))
+      else if(checkprefix("FTPS", conn->gname))
         strcpy(conn->protostr, "ftps");
 #endif /* USE_SSLEAY */
-      else if(strnequal(conn->gname, "TELNET", 6))
+      else if(checkprefix("TELNET", conn->gname))
         strcpy(conn->protostr, "telnet");
-      else if (strnequal(conn->gname, "DICT", sizeof("DICT")-1))
+      else if (checkprefix("DICT", conn->gname))
         strcpy(conn->protostr, "DICT");
-      else if (strnequal(conn->gname, "LDAP", sizeof("LDAP")-1))
+      else if (checkprefix("LDAP", conn->gname))
         strcpy(conn->protostr, "LDAP");
       else {
         strcpy(conn->protostr, "http");
@@ -1966,7 +1966,7 @@
         if(strlen(nope) <= namelen) {
           char *checkn=
             conn->name + namelen - strlen(nope);
-          if(strnequal(nope, checkn, strlen(nope))) {
+          if(checkprefix(nope, checkn)) {
             /* no proxy for this host! */
             break;
           }