Re: [PATCHv2 GSOC 01/11] gitweb: fix esc_url

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Dnia czwartek 15. lipca 2010 20:57, Junio C Hamano napisał:
> Jakub Narebski <jnareb@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
>> On Thu, 15 Jul 2010, Pavan Kumar Sunkara wrote:
>>> The custom CGI escaping done in esc_url failed to escape UTF-8
>>> properly. Fix by using CGI::escape on each sequence of matched
>>> characters instead of sprintf()ing a custom escaping for each byte.
>>> 
>>> Additionally, the space -> + escape was being escaped due to greedy
>>> matching on the first substitution. Fix by adding space to the
>>> list of characters not handled on the first substitution.
>>> 
>>> Finally, remove an unnecessary escaping of the + sign.
>>> 
>>> commit 452e225 has missed fixing esc_url.
>>> 
>>> Signed-off-by: Pavan Kumar Sunkara <pavan.sss1991@xxxxxxxxx>
[...]
>> Second, I would probably write commit message differently, to emphasize
>> that it is just finishing work of commit 452e225 (gitweb: fix esc_param,
>> 2009-10-13) by fixing esc_url like it fixed esc_params.  But it is not
>> something very important.
> 
> I tentatively rewrote the message like so:
> 
>     Earlier, 452e225 (gitweb: fix esc_param, 2009-10-13) fixed CGI
>     escaping rules used in esc_url.  A very similar logic exists in
>     esc_param and needs to be fixed the same way.

Thanks.

> It makes one wonder why they have to be separate functions, doesn't it,
> though?

They need to be separate because you have to escape params-related
special characters ('?', ';', '=') when quoting params, but you
shouldn't when escaping (external) URL as a whole.

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland
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