[REBOL] Re: decode-cgi bug (imbedded spaces in names)
From: tim:johnsons-web at: 10-Feb-2004 7:38
* Tom Conlin <[tomc--darkwing--uoregon--edu]> [040209 17:04]:
>
> that is exactly the sort of thing 'vet-word avoids.
Tom:
Tell me more about 'vet-word,
if you can.
thanks
tim
> it is obviously a work in progress and of all the unsatisfaftory
> side effects I think the least unsatisfaftory is yet to be found.
>
> On Mon, 9 Feb 2004, Tim Johnson wrote:
>
> >
> > * Hallvard Ystad <[hallvard--ystad--oops-as--no]> [040209 13:31]:
> > It looks like Hallvard's problem is being addressed, but I want to
> > note that I modified decode-cgi so that a block of string pairs
> > is returned rather than a block of alternating to-set-word types
> > and strings.
> >
> > Reason for it:
> > A rebol cgi program might be processing a form in which field
> > names have imbedded spaces. This isn't a practice of mine,
> > and I avoid it on any of our projects, but the eventuality
> > would yield unpredicatable results:
> >
> > example:
> > >> res: context decode-cgi "field one=1&fieldtwo=2"
> > >> probe res
> >
> > make object! [
> > field one: "1"
> > fieldtwo: "2"
> > ]
> > >> res/fieldtwo
> > == "2"
> > >>res/field one
> > ** Script Error: Invalid path value: field
> > ** Near: res/field one
> >
> > tim
> >
> > >
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > I know some people say "garbage in - garbage out", but one can't always control
what comes into one's programs as input. Here's what came to one of mine:
> > >
> > > http://www.bbc.co.uk/cgi-perl/h2/h2.cgi?state=threads&board=cult.tamaraswift&&sort=T
> > >
> > > This crashes 'decode-cgi in /core 2.5.6:
> > > >> decode-cgi "state=threads&board=cult.tamaraswift&&sort=T"
> > > ** Script Error: Out of range or past end
> > > ** Where: to-set-word
> > > ** Near: to set-word! :value
> > > >>
> > >
> > > I believe Andreas Bolka and/or Andrew Martin made a patch to 'decode-cgi some time
back, but can't seem to find it. Does anyone know whether the patch fixes this problem?
Or perhaps where I can find it?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > HY
> > >
> > > Pr=E6tera censeo Carthaginem esse delendam
> > >
> > >
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