Commit 0357a38e31 modified the function
fastpath_send_update_pdu() to check if the desired update is possible
by checking the payload size against the computed maxLength and the
clients's advertised max request size.
If the check failed that commit added a workaround which simply
copied the payload to a slow path updade.
This workaround is totally flawed and causes protocol errors:
- the fast path update code is not checked and required data format
conversions are missing
- depending on the fast path update code rdp_send_data_pdu() would
have to be called with differend data pdu type values but the
workaround always uses DATA_PDU_TYPE_UPDATE
- the workaround does not check if the total size would exceed
the maximum possible size for a slow path update
The check if a fast path output is actually possible with the
passed parameters is basically a good idea.
However, if that check fails it would only indicate an error in
the server implementation who must not generate updates that
exceed the client's max request size.
Even though a slow-path conversion would be possible there is
much more involved than simply copying the payload stream.
In addition it is highly doubtful if there is a benefit at all.
Even the oldest rdesktop and windows ce clients do support fast
path and although some lack the multi-fragment update capability
we cannot really send larger updates using slow-path outputs.
For the reasons elucidated above, I have removed the workaround
but kept a modified version of the check if a fast-path output
is possible at all.
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