tdf#116516: INTERNET_PROXY_INFO always contains char* data

Regression from e80aef4e032f08ef0c4cfbb028bf83b81002f112

The InternetQueryOption has two variants: ANSI (A) and Unicode (W)
(see https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa385101).
INTERNET_PROXY_INFO struct we are using is defined to contain two
LPCTSTR members (see https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa385148).
When UNICODE is defined, InternetQueryOption expands to W variant,
and at the same time, all MS-specific generic string types (like
TCHAR or LPCTSTR) are expanded to wchar_t-based types.

So, the expectation is that InternetQueryOptionW fills the struct
with pointers to widechar strings.

But actually this is not true: InternetQueryOptionW still returns
char-based strings in the struct; so just revert partially commit
above.

Change-Id: I0facb1baf2a191f7bafdf185e684bfe741ca677a
Reviewed-on: https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/51629
Tested-by: Jenkins <ci@libreoffice.org>
Reviewed-by: Mike Kaganski <mike.kaganski@collabora.com>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/shell/source/backends/wininetbe/wininetbackend.cxx b/shell/source/backends/wininetbe/wininetbackend.cxx
index bd9583717724..b6bcae4a8fc5 100644
--- a/shell/source/backends/wininetbe/wininetbackend.cxx
+++ b/shell/source/backends/wininetbe/wininetbackend.cxx
@@ -159,10 +159,14 @@ WinInetBackend::WinInetBackend()
             // an empty proxy list, so we don't have to check if
             // proxy is enabled or not
 
-            // We use a W-version of InternetQueryOption; it returns struct with pointers to wide strings
-            // There's no INTERNET_PROXY_INFOW, so we simply cast returned struct's members
-            OUString aProxyList       = reinterpret_cast<const sal_Unicode*>( lpi->lpszProxy );
-            OUString aProxyBypassList = reinterpret_cast<const sal_Unicode*>( lpi->lpszProxyBypass );
+            // We use InternetQueryOptionW (see https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa385101);
+            // it fills INTERNET_PROXY_INFO struct which is definned in WinInet.h to have LPCTSTR
+            // (i.e., the UNICODE-dependent generic string type expanding to const wchar_t* when
+            // UNICODE is defined, and InternetQueryOption macro expands to InternetQueryOptionW).
+            // Thus, it's natural to expect that W version would return wide strings. But it's not
+            // true. The W version still returns const char* in INTERNET_PROXY_INFO.
+            OUString aProxyList       = OUString::createFromAscii( lpi->lpszProxy );
+            OUString aProxyBypassList = OUString::createFromAscii( lpi->lpszProxyBypass );
 
             // override default for ProxyType, which is "0" meaning "No proxies".
             valueProxyType_.IsPresent = true;