JETTY-1092

git-svn-id: svn+ssh://dev.eclipse.org/svnroot/rt/org.eclipse.jetty/jetty/trunk@824 7e9141cc-0065-0410-87d8-b60c137991c4

VERSION.txt

@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ jetty-7.0.0.RC6-SNAPSHOT
  + JETTY-1080 modify previous fix to work on windows
  + JETTY-1086 Use UncheckedPrintWriter
  + JETTY-1090 resolve potential infinite loop with webdav listener
+ + JETTY-1092 MultiPartFilter can be pushed into infinite loop
  + JETTY-1093 Request.toString throws exception when size exceeds 4k
  + 288514 AbstractConnector does not handle InterruptedExceptions on shutdown
  + 288466 LocalConnector is not thread safe

jetty-servlets/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/servlets/MultiPartFilter.java

@@ -172,7 +172,12 @@ public class MultiPartFilter implements Filter
                 {
                     continue;
                 }
-                if(name==null||name.length()==0)
+                //It is valid for reset and submit buttons to have an empty name.
+                //If no name is supplied, the browser skips sending the info for that field.
+                //However, if you supply the empty string as the name, the browser sends the
+                //field, with name as the empty string. So, only continue this loop if we
+                //have not yet seen a name field.
+                if(name==null)
                 {
                     continue;
                 }