strcspn return incorrect results

hello,
i'm trying to locate the occurence in a string of a comparison string using srcspn, but it never returns correct results,

Code:

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char acc[] = "Accept-Encoding:";
int loc = strcspn(tmp, acc);

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where tmp is a char array containing the http request:

GET <request> HTTP/1.1
Host: <host>
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.4; en-US; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20100824 Firefox/3.6.9
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Keep-Alive: 115
Proxy-Connection: keep-alive
Cookie: __utma=212617111.289542702.1278157741.1278907954.1 278912107.14; __utmz=212617111.1278907954.13.3.utmcsr=enrol.rmit .edu.au|utmccn=(referral)|utmcmd=referral|utmcct=/eol/AcadHistoryList.asp
Cache-Control: max-age=0


basically what i want to do is remove the Accept-Encoding portion of the http request so my server doesn't receive gzipped files, but strcspn for "Accept-Encoding" returns 1, am i doing something wrong? please help,
regards,

It sounds like you want strstr(), not strcspn().

Once you've found a pointer to a substring, subtract the original string to find the offset.

Duplicate post.

hi,
thanks, strstr works fine to locate the encoding header then memset to 0 the length of the encoding string but that only works because i know what sort of content i'm receiving from the remote server (i'm writing a proxy as an exercise, btw), and how long the header field is, but how could i make this more generic? and not rely on say, the length of a string "gzip,deflate"?

edit: the reason i'm not passing the entire request is because i need to cache the contents of the remote server and with the Accept-Encoding header there i get garbage (i.e. gipped content).

one last thing, obviously i'm not understanding strcspn,
the example i seen on cplusplus.com leads me to believe that strcspn for my purpose should return something like 300 or so, but as i said it returns only one. the first letter of the search string is G, not even remotely like "Accept-Encoding"

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thanks, strstr works fine to locate the encoding header then memset to 0 the length of the encoding string but that only works because i know what sort of content i'm receiving from the remote server (i'm writing a proxy as an exercise, btw), and how long the header field is, but how could i make this more generic? and not rely on say, the length of a string "gzip,deflate"?

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You want to split the header up into lines, not treat it as one chunk of text. Then you can easily modify, pass through, or ignore any headers.

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the example i seen on cplusplus.com leads me to believe that strcspn for my purpose should return something like 300 or so, but as i said it returns only one. the first letter of the search string is G, not even remotely like "Accept-Encoding"

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strcspn() does not search for a substring. The second argument is a list of characters (which must be a string, yes, but it is not a search string). strcspn() will search through the first argument until it finds any one of the characters in the second argument; the return value is the index of the first character.

Since your acc array contains the letter E, and the second character in your header is E, it stops processing when it sees it, and returns its index, which is 1.