[FASTCGI] Length Incosistency Between FCGI_RECORD and FCGI_PARAMS

[Jon Ribbens]

On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 02:27:19PM +0200, Volkan YAZICI wrote:
> Whole record length is represented by 2 bytes (maximum 2^(2*8) bytes),
> but a key+value length might be representing a block of 8 bytes (maximum
> 2^(4*8) bytes) in size.
> 
>   +-----------------------------+
>   | ### FCGI_RECORD ########### |
>   | +----------------------------------------------+
>   | | ### FCGI_PARAMS ############################ |
>   | +----------------------------------------------+
>   +-----------------------------+
> 
>   ^                             ^                  ^
>   |---- 2^(2*8)=65536 bytes ----|                  |
>   |--------------- 2^(4*8)=4294967296 -------------|
> 
> How can this be possible? I have read FastCGI specification[1] over and
> over again but couldn't find a clue. Would you mind helping me to
> clarify this point please?

Sorry, but in what way is "so don't do that then" not an answer to
your question?