Added check for removing characters from nDPI custom-defined protocols that might cause apps to misbehave.

2 files changed, 16 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/example/protos.txt b/example/protos.txt
index de7dc1c40..4c995f543 100644
--- a/example/protos.txt
+++ b/example/protos.txt
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ tcp:3000@ntop
 host:"googlesyndacation.com"@Google
 host:"venere.com"@Venere
 host:"kataweb.it",host:"repubblica.it"@Repubblica
-
+host:"ntop"@ntop
 #  IP based Subprotocols
 #  Format:
 #  ip:<value>,ip:<value>,.....@<subproto>
diff --git a/src/lib/ndpi_main.c b/src/lib/ndpi_main.c
index 9807183ba..0623433bb 100644
--- a/src/lib/ndpi_main.c
+++ b/src/lib/ndpi_main.c
@@ -2000,6 +2000,21 @@ int ndpi_handle_rule(struct ndpi_detection_module_struct *ndpi_mod, char* rule,
   } else
     at[0] = 0, proto = &at[1];
 
+  for(i=0; proto[i] != '\0'; i++) {
+    switch(proto[i]) {
+    case '/':
+    case '&':
+    case '^':
+    case ':':
+    case ';':
+    case '\'':
+    case '"':
+    case ' ':
+      proto[i] = '_';
+      break;
+    }
+  }
+
   for(i=0, def = NULL; i<(int)ndpi_mod->ndpi_num_supported_protocols; i++) {
     if(strcasecmp(ndpi_mod->proto_defaults[i].protoName, proto) == 0) {
       def = &ndpi_mod->proto_defaults[i];