From a7373a1ca4ef7daa3aaa2a46724eee477d07cf7c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jon Siwek <jsiwek@illinois.edu>
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2014 13:38:52 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Remove unneeded allocations for HTTP messages.

---
 CHANGES                            | 4 ++++
 VERSION                            | 2 +-
 src/analyzer/protocol/http/HTTP.cc | 5 ++++-
 3 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index a6369c5e7b..1135150ac2 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -1,4 +1,8 @@
 
+2.3-172 | 2014-09-15 13:38:52 -0500
+
+  * Remove unneeded allocations for HTTP messages. (Jon Siwek)
+
 2.3-171 | 2014-09-15 11:14:57 -0500
 
   * Fix a compile error on systems without pcap-int.h. (Jon Siwek)
diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index 9f2d4b5ba4..839b876868 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-2.3-171
+2.3-172
diff --git a/src/analyzer/protocol/http/HTTP.cc b/src/analyzer/protocol/http/HTTP.cc
index cbe8320ed5..4d00ca85aa 100644
--- a/src/analyzer/protocol/http/HTTP.cc
+++ b/src/analyzer/protocol/http/HTTP.cc
@@ -545,7 +545,7 @@ HTTP_Message::HTTP_Message(HTTP_Analyzer* arg_analyzer,
 
 	current_entity = 0;
 	top_level = new HTTP_Entity(this, 0, expect_body);
-	entity_data_buffer = new char[http_entity_data_delivery_size];
+	entity_data_buffer = 0;
 	BeginEntity(top_level);
 
 	start_time = network_time;
@@ -718,6 +718,9 @@ void HTTP_Message::SubmitData(int len, const char* buf)
 
 int HTTP_Message::RequestBuffer(int* plen, char** pbuf)
 	{
+	if ( ! entity_data_buffer )
+		entity_data_buffer = new char[http_entity_data_delivery_size];
+
 	*plen = http_entity_data_delivery_size;
 	*pbuf = entity_data_buffer;
 	return 1;