ssid with double space not stored correctly

Dale R. Worley worley at alum.mit.edu
Wed Dec 13 19:18:59 PST 2017


David Poole <testcluster at gmail.com> writes:
> I have a set of evil test SSIDs I use. The 802.11 spec just says "32 chars"
> and is very unspecific about what a "char" consists of. We've found lots of
> weird corner cases in applications, drivers, when hitting corner cases
> (like exactly 32 chars).

Ugh.  So the real rules are whatever constraints the radio protocol
places on the value that is put in the SSID field.

Dale



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