2 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/NEWS.xml b/NEWS.xml
index d8b93f2..210cf13 100644
--- a/NEWS.xml
+++ b/NEWS.xml
@@ -1,11 +1,12 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="us-ascii"?>
 <news>
  <version version="0.1" date="January 12th, 2007">
   <ni>OpenID simple registration extension implementation</ni>
   <ni>OpenID extensions framework</ni>
   <ni>Canonicalization bugfix</ni>
+  <ni>Slightly improved interoperability with buggy implementations</ni>
  </version>
  <version version="0.0" date="July 25th, 2005">
   <ni>Initial release</ni>
  </version>
 </news>
diff --git a/lib/params.cc b/lib/params.cc
index 03867d5..b181811 100644
--- a/lib/params.cc
+++ b/lib/params.cc
@@ -20,33 +20,34 @@ namespace opkele {
         iterator i = find(n);
         if(i==end())
             throw failed_lookup(OPKELE_CP_ n+": no such parameter");
         return i->second;
     }
 
     void params_t::parse_keyvalues(const string& kv) {
         clear();
         string::size_type p = 0;
         while(true) {
             string::size_type co = kv.find(':',p);
             if(co==string::npos)
                 break;
             string::size_type nl = kv.find('\n',co+1);
             if(nl==string::npos)
                 throw bad_input(OPKELE_CP_ "malformed input");
-            insert(value_type(kv.substr(p,co-p),kv.substr(co+1,nl-co-1)));
+            if(nl>co)
+                insert(value_type(kv.substr(p,co-p),kv.substr(co+1,nl-co-1)));
             p = nl+1;
         }
     }
 
     void params_t::sign(secret_t secret,string& sig,const string& slist,const char *prefix) const {
         string kv;
         string::size_type p = 0;
         while(true) {
             string::size_type co = slist.find(',',p);
             string f = (co==string::npos)?slist.substr(p):slist.substr(p,co-p);
             kv += f;
             kv += ':';
             if(prefix) f.insert(0,prefix);
             kv += get_param(f);
             kv += '\n';
             if(co==string::npos)