From: Nicolas Morey-Chaisemartin <nmoreychaisemartin@xxxxxxxx> When trying to send a patch using 'imap-send' with 'curl' and the following configuration: [imap] folder = "[Gmail]/Drafts" host = imaps://imap.gmail.com port = 993 sslverify = false resulted in the following error, curl_easy_perform() failed: URL using bad/illegal format or missing URL That was a consequence of the not URI encoding the folder portion of the URL which contained characters such as '[' which are not allowed in a URI. According to RFC3986, these characters should be "URI encoded". So, URI encode the folder portion of the URL to ensure it doesn't contain characters that aren't allowed in a URI. Reported-by: Doron Behar <doron.behar@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Morey-Chaisemartin <NMoreyChaisemartin@xxxxxxxx> --- I came across the same issue that lead to this patch recently and found that this patch didn't make it in. So, I thought I could help out and hence this v2. Eric Sunshine <sunshine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > For someone reading this commit message in the future -- someone who > didn't follow the email thread which led to this patch -- "this fixes" > doesn't say much about the actual problem being addressed. Can you > expand the commit message a bit to make it more self-contained? At > minimum, perhaps show the error message you were experiencing, and > cite (as Daniel pointed out) RFC 3986 and the bit about a "legal" URL > not containing brackets. I guess I covered this part. > Also, a natural question which pops into the head of someone reading > this patch is whether other parts of the URL (host, user, etc.) also > need to be handled similarly. It's possible that you audited the code > and determined that they are handled fine already, but the reader of > the commit message is unable to infer that. Consequently, it might be > nice to have a sentence about that, as well ("other parts of the URL > are already encoded, thus are fine" or "other parts of the URL are not > subject to this problem because ..."). I'm not sure about this one. I guess the host and user don't need encoding as I suspect they wouldn't contain characters that aren't allowed. I might be wrong, though. Let me know if I'm missing something. Thanks, Kaartic imap-send.c | 8 +++++++- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/imap-send.c b/imap-send.c index 54e6a80fd..36c7c1b4f 100644 --- a/imap-send.c +++ b/imap-send.c @@ -1412,6 +1412,7 @@ static CURL *setup_curl(struct imap_server_conf *srvc, struct credential *cred) { CURL *curl; struct strbuf path = STRBUF_INIT; + char *uri_encoded_folder; if (curl_global_init(CURL_GLOBAL_ALL) != CURLE_OK) die("curl_global_init failed"); @@ -1429,7 +1430,12 @@ static CURL *setup_curl(struct imap_server_conf *srvc, struct credential *cred) strbuf_addstr(&path, server.host); if (!path.len || path.buf[path.len - 1] != '/') strbuf_addch(&path, '/'); - strbuf_addstr(&path, server.folder); + + uri_encoded_folder = curl_easy_escape(curl, server.folder, 0); + if (!uri_encoded_folder) + die("failed to encode server folder"); + strbuf_addstr(&path, uri_encoded_folder); + curl_free(uri_encoded_folder); curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, path.buf); strbuf_release(&path); -- 2.15.1.620.gb9897f467