diff --git a/common/rfb/HTTPServer.cxx b/common/rfb/HTTPServer.cxx
index 934ca74..94f0609 100644
--- a/common/rfb/HTTPServer.cxx
+++ b/common/rfb/HTTPServer.cxx
@@ -240,7 +240,7 @@
           return writeResponse(501);
 
         // Store the URI to the "document"
-        uri.buf = safe_strdup(path);
+        uri.buf = strDup(path);
       }
 
       // Move on to reading the request headers