RN171 crashing on receiving query parameters

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I initialize the RN171 Wifi card like this:

			wifi_RN171.Initialize(GTM.GHIElectronics.WiFi_RN171.SocketProtocol.TCP_Server); 
wifi_RN171.EnableHttpServer(); //Enable HTTP Parsing

Then I run it. Network “GHI HotSpot” appears. I connect my laptop to this network, go to browser and send it the following: http://192.168.1.1/f.htm?f=567 or any other URL with query parameters.

The entire thing crashes with An unhandled exception of type ‘System.NullReferenceException’ occurred in GTM.GHIElectronics.WiFi_RN171.dll

If on the other hand I send it http://192.168.1.1/f/567/r/3/2, it all works fine.

Is there a fix to this issue? The version of GTM.GHIElectronics.WiFi_RN171.dll is 4.2.101.0

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We can reproduce the issue. A fix will be in the next SDK. However, if you want to apply the fix now, follow the steps in https://www.ghielectronics.com/docs/122/gadgeteer-driver-modification to modify the WiFi RN171 driver and replace the function _ParseHttpHeader in WiFiRN171_42.cs starting on line 1145 with the following:

        
private HttpRequest _ParseHttpHeader(string buffer)
        {
            HttpRequest request = new HttpRequest();

            //Get the request type
            if (buffer.IndexOf("GET") >= 0)
                request.RequestType = HttpRequest.HttpRequestType.GET;
            else if (buffer.IndexOf("POST") >= 0)
                request.RequestType = HttpRequest.HttpRequestType.POST;

            //Get the requested document
            int start_index = buffer.IndexOf("/");
            int end_index = start_index >= 0 ? buffer.IndexOf(" ", start_index) : -1;

            if (start_index >= 0 && end_index > start_index)
            {
                int i = buffer.IndexOf("?");

                if (i > 0)
                {
                    string query = buffer.Substring(i + 1, end_index - (i + 1));
                    request.URL = buffer.Substring(start_index, i - start_index);

                    var paras = query.Split('=', '&');

                    for (int j = 0; j < paras.Length; j += 2)
                        request.QueryData[_UrlDecode(paras[j])] = _UrlDecode(paras[j + 1]);
                }
                else
                {
                    request.URL = buffer.Substring(start_index, end_index - start_index);
                }

                //Shift the buffer forward
                buffer = buffer.Substring(buffer.IndexOf("\r\n") + 2);
            }

            //Inflate the individual elements
            int index = -1;
            string line_buffer = "";
            bool keep_check = true;

            while ((index = buffer.IndexOf("\r\n")) >= 0)
            {
                //For POST headers, we need to determine the length of the post data
                if (request.RequestType == HttpRequest.HttpRequestType.POST && keep_check)
                {
                    line_buffer = buffer.Substring(0, index);

                    if (line_buffer.IndexOf("Content-Length:") == 0)
                    {
                        StringToInt(line_buffer.Substring(16), out request.PostLength);

                        //Once we have the content length, we no longer need to parse
                        //the individual lines
                        keep_check = false;
                    }

                    if (line_buffer.IndexOf(": ") > 0)
                    {
                        request.HeaderData[line_buffer.Substring(0, line_buffer.IndexOf(": "))]
                            =
                            line_buffer.Substring((line_buffer.IndexOf(": ") + 2));
                    }
                }
                else
                {
                    line_buffer = buffer.Substring(0, index);

                    //Add the element
                    if (line_buffer.IndexOf(": ") > 0)
                    {
                        request.HeaderData[line_buffer.Substring(0, line_buffer.IndexOf(": "))]
                            =
                            line_buffer.Substring((line_buffer.IndexOf(": ") + 2));
                    }

                    line_buffer = "";
                }

                //Shift the buffer forward
                buffer = buffer.Substring(index + 2);
            }

            return request;
        }

Additionally, in HttpRequest.cs, replace the constructor on line 71 with

        
public HttpRequest()
        {
            HeaderData = new HttpHeaderList();
            QueryData = new QueryDataList();
        }
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