Fixed: Use correct formatted HTTP 1.1 query, previous one was blocked by some security software (a big thanks to Vojtech Vobr from AVG Technologies for his investigation to help us to fix this issue)

code/ryzom/common/src/game_share/http_client.cpp

@@ -98,27 +98,56 @@ bool CHttpClient::send(const std::string& buffer, bool verbose)
 // ***************************************************************************
 bool CHttpClient::sendRequest(const std::string& methodWB, const std::string &url, const std::string &cookieName, const std::string &cookieValue, const std::string& postParams, bool verbose)
 {
-	// Remove the host from the URL
+	std::string path, host;
-	string path;
+
+	// Remove the protocol from the URL
 	if (url.substr(0, 7) == "http://")
 		path = url.substr(7);
 	else
 		path = url;
-	path = path.substr(path.find( "/" ));
+
+	std::string::size_type pos = path.find("/");
+
+	// Remove the host from the URL
+	if (pos != std::string::npos)
+	{
+		host = path.substr(0, pos);
+		path = path.substr(pos);
+	}
+	else
+	{
+		host = path;
+		path.clear();
+	}
+
+	// build HTTP request
+	std::string request;
+	request += methodWB + " " + path + " HTTP/1.1\r\n";
+	request += "Host: " + host + "\r\n";
 
 	// Send
 	if (cookieName.empty() && postParams.empty())
 	{
-		return send(methodWB + path + "\r\n", verbose);
+		request += "\r\n";
+
+		return send(request, verbose);
 	}
 	else
 	{
-		string cookieStr, postStr;
 		if (!cookieName.empty())
-			cookieStr = "Cookie: " + cookieName + "=" + cookieValue + "\r\n";
+			request += "Cookie: " + cookieName + "=" + cookieValue + "\r\n";
+
 		if (!postParams.empty())
-			postStr = "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\r\nContent-Length: " + toString(postParams.size()) + "\r\n\r\n" + postParams;
+		{
-		return send(methodWB + path + " HTTP/1.0\r\n" + cookieStr + postStr + "\r\n", verbose);
+			request += "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\r\n";
+			request += "Content-Length: " + toString(postParams.size()) + "\r\n";
+			request += "\r\n";
+			request += postParams;
+		}
+
+		request += "\r\n";
+
+		return send(request, verbose);
 	}
 }
 
@@ -179,6 +208,15 @@ bool CHttpClient::receive(string &res, bool verbose)
 		}
 	}
 	//nlinfo("all received '%s'", res.c_str());
+
+	// only keep content (delimited by two \r\n) and discard server headers
+	std::string::size_type pos = res.find("\r\n\r\n");
+
+	if (pos != std::string::npos)
+	{
+		res = res.substr(pos + 4);
+	}
+
 	return true;
 }