Re: [PATCH 2/2] wininet: Implement basic non-proxy authentiction.

[Detlef Riekenberg]

On Mo, 2007-05-21 at 14:28 +0100, Robert Shearman wrote:
> -
>    int userlen = WideCharToMultiByte(CP_UTF8, 0,
>
> domain_and_username, lstrlenW(domain_and_username), NULL, 0, NULL,
> NULL);
> -
>    int passlen = WideCharToMultiByte(CP_UTF8, 0, password,
>
> lstrlenW(password), NULL, 0, NULL, NULL);

What is the advantage to use lstrlenW() here over -1, as used below?
> -
> -
>    WideCharToMultiByte(CP_UTF8, 0, domain_and_username, -1,
>
> auth_data, userlen, NULL, NULL);
> -
>    auth_data[userlen] = ':';
> -
>    WideCharToMultiByte(CP_UTF8, 0, password, -1,
>
> &auth_data[userlen+1], passlen, NULL, NULL);

Using -1 has the advantage to reduce the code-size.

Thanks.