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-rw-r--r--shell/source/backends/wininetbe/wininetbackend.cxx12
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/shell/source/backends/wininetbe/wininetbackend.cxx b/shell/source/backends/wininetbe/wininetbackend.cxx
index b1006803d065..86cfdfec654e 100644
--- a/shell/source/backends/wininetbe/wininetbackend.cxx
+++ b/shell/source/backends/wininetbe/wininetbackend.cxx
@@ -165,10 +165,14 @@ 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;