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Re: [Patch] Avoid sending the URL fragment
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2010 06:00:41 -0800
On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 2:05 PM, Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se> wrote:
> On Sun, 3 Jan 2010, Claes Jakobsson wrote:
>
>> + /* Remove the fragment part of the path. Per RFC 2396, this is always
>> the
>> + last part of the URI. */
>> + fragment = strrchr(path, '#');
>> + if(fragment)
>> + *fragment = 0;
>>
>> Altho the specification forbids any # in the fragment part I think it's
>> better to look for the leftmost # and consider everything after that the
>> fragment. That way "http://foo/#bar#baz" won't cause any problems.
>
> Yes, I agree. 'path' in this context is only the path fragment of the
> URI/URL anyway so doing a strchr() for '#' should be a better idea I think.
>
I also completely agree with the proposal. It would make us degrade
gracefully on such non valid URI.
An updated patch is attached. Do you think we should add a test for such URI?
Regards,
Julien
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