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
@@ -5,4 +5,5 @@
   <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">
diff --git a/lib/params.cc b/lib/params.cc
index 03867d5..b181811 100644
--- a/lib/params.cc
+++ b/lib/params.cc
@@ -34,5 +34,6 @@ namespace opkele {
             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;
         }