From baae0de8ec0057cdb93deebfe55bcdbfe30a61eb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Amos Jeffries <yadij@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2023 17:09:34 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Bug 5300: cachemgr.cgi assertion (#1478)

---
 tools/cachemgr.cc | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/cachemgr.cc b/tools/cachemgr.cc
index 3facfc4adf..1008afc38c 100644
--- a/tools/cachemgr.cc
+++ b/tools/cachemgr.cc
@@ -456,8 +456,11 @@ munge_menu_line(MemBuf &out, const char *buf, cachemgr_request * req)
     char *a_url;
     char *buf_copy;
 
-    const char bufLen = strlen(buf);
-    if (bufLen < 1 || *buf != ' ') {
+    const auto bufLen = strlen(buf);
+    if (bufLen < 1)
+        return; // nothing to append
+
+    if (*buf != ' ') {
         out.append(buf, bufLen);
         return;
     }
-- 
2.47.2