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-rw-r--r--NEWS2
-rw-r--r--src/command/QueueCommands.cxx11
2 files changed, 12 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index cd69a7a6e..dae99f74a 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
ver 0.19.4 (not yet released)
+* protocol
+ - workaround for buggy clients that send "add /"
* decoder
- opus: add MIME types audio/ogg and application/ogg
diff --git a/src/command/QueueCommands.cxx b/src/command/QueueCommands.cxx
index 36c8ac84f..d0b789eb1 100644
--- a/src/command/QueueCommands.cxx
+++ b/src/command/QueueCommands.cxx
@@ -61,7 +61,16 @@ translate_uri(Client &client, const char *uri)
CommandResult
handle_add(Client &client, gcc_unused unsigned argc, char *argv[])
{
- const char *const uri = translate_uri(client, argv[1]);
+ const char *uri = argv[1];
+ if (memcmp(uri, "/", 2) == 0)
+ /* this URI is malformed, but some clients are buggy
+ and use "add /" to add the whole database, which
+ was never intended to work, but once did; in order
+ to retain backwards compatibility, work around this
+ here */
+ uri = "";
+
+ uri = translate_uri(client, uri);
if (uri == nullptr)
return CommandResult::ERROR;