Re: [PATCH v2] Do not unquote + into ' ' in URLs

["Jasper St. Pierre" <jstpierre@mecheye.net>]

Hmm.. could we get a follow-up on this patch? It's annoying because it's both
backwards and forwards incompatible: the %2b workaround doesn't work in
older versions.

On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 10:49 AM, Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> wrote:
> Since 9d2e942 (decode file:// and ssh:// URLs, 2010-05-23) the URL
> logic unquotes escaped URLs.  For the %2B type of escape, this is
> conformant with RFC 2396.  However, it also unquotes + into a space
> character, which is only appropriate for the query strings in HTTP.
> This notably broke fetching from the gtk+ repository.
>
> We cannot just remove the corresponding code since the same
> url_decode_internal() is also used by the HTTP backend to decode query
> parameters.  Introduce a new argument that controls whether the +
> decoding happens, and use it only in the (client-side) url_decode().
>
> Reported-by: Jasper St. Pierre <jstpierre@mecheye.net>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
> ---
>
> I wrote:
>> Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> >
>> >   http-backend.c::get_info_refs()
>> >    -> http-backend.c::get_parameter()
>> >      -> http-backend.c::get_parameters()
>> >        -> url.c::url_decode_parameter_value()
>> >          -> url.c::url_decode_internal()
>>
>> You're right, I forgot about those.  I imagine it would be one of two
>> cases:
> [...]
>> Shawn, can you help with this?
>
> The third case, of course, is:
>
> * It only uses these functions for parameter decoding, which of course
>  was correct to begin with.
>
> So after hopefully drinking enough coffee, I made this one.  The catch
> is that I'm not entirely clear whether *not* decoding the +
> client-side anywhere in the URL is correct for http:// URLs?  If the
> client decodes and re-encodes the URL, then the + would be turned into
> a %2B on the re-encoding.  Then again maybe UI-facing URLs should
> never have a query part at all?
>
>
>  t/t5601-clone.sh |   10 ++++++++--
>  url.c            |   11 ++++++-----
>  2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/t/t5601-clone.sh b/t/t5601-clone.sh
> index 8abb71a..4431dfd 100755
> --- a/t/t5601-clone.sh
> +++ b/t/t5601-clone.sh
> @@ -178,8 +178,14 @@ test_expect_success 'clone respects global branch.autosetuprebase' '
>
>  test_expect_success 'respect url-encoding of file://' '
>        git init x+y &&
> -       test_must_fail git clone "file://$PWD/x+y" xy-url &&
> -       git clone "file://$PWD/x%2By" xy-url
> +       git clone "file://$PWD/x+y" xy-url-1 &&
> +       git clone "file://$PWD/x%2By" xy-url-2
> +'
> +
> +test_expect_success 'do not query-string-decode + in URLs' '
> +       rm -rf x+y &&
> +       git init "x y" &&
> +       test_must_fail git clone "file://$PWD/x+y" xy-no-plus
>  '
>
>  test_expect_success 'do not respect url-encoding of non-url path' '
> diff --git a/url.c b/url.c
> index 2306236..cd8f74f 100644
> --- a/url.c
> +++ b/url.c
> @@ -67,7 +67,8 @@ static int url_decode_char(const char *q)
>        return val;
>  }
>
> -static char *url_decode_internal(const char **query, const char *stop_at, struct strbuf *out)
> +static char *url_decode_internal(const char **query, const char *stop_at,
> +                                struct strbuf *out, int decode_plus)
>  {
>        const char *q = *query;
>
> @@ -90,7 +91,7 @@ static char *url_decode_internal(const char **query, const char *stop_at, struct
>                        }
>                }
>
> -               if (c == '+')
> +               if (decode_plus && c == '+')
>                        strbuf_addch(out, ' ');
>                else
>                        strbuf_addch(out, c);
> @@ -110,17 +111,17 @@ char *url_decode(const char *url)
>                strbuf_add(&out, url, colon - url);
>                url = colon;
>        }
> -       return url_decode_internal(&url, NULL, &out);
> +       return url_decode_internal(&url, NULL, &out, 0);
>  }
>
>  char *url_decode_parameter_name(const char **query)
>  {
>        struct strbuf out = STRBUF_INIT;
> -       return url_decode_internal(query, "&=", &out);
> +       return url_decode_internal(query, "&=", &out, 1);
>  }
>
>  char *url_decode_parameter_value(const char **query)
>  {
>        struct strbuf out = STRBUF_INIT;
> -       return url_decode_internal(query, "&", &out);
> +       return url_decode_internal(query, "&", &out, 1);
>  }
> --
> 1.7.2.278.g76edd.dirty
>
>