Wrong document returned due to incorrect URL decoding
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Key: COUCHDB-883
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-883
Project: CouchDB
Issue Type: Bug
Components: HTTP Interface
Affects Versions: 1.0.1
Environment: Kubuntu 10.4, Firefox 3.6.8
Reporter: Taras Puchko
I have two documents in my database: "a b" and "a+b". The first can be
retrieved via "/mydb/a%20b" and the second via "/mydb/a%2Bb".
When I enter "/mydb/a b" in the browser it automatically encodes it so the
correct document is returned. But when I enter "/mydb/a+b" the URL is sent
intact since "+" is a valid character in a path segment according to [1]. The
problem is that "GET /mydb/a+b" makes CouchDB return the document with id "a b"
and not the intended one, which is against the URI spec .
For an informal description of URL encoding one may refer to [2].
[1]: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt
[2]:
http://www.lunatech-research.com/archives/2009/02/03/what-every-web-developer-must-know-about-url-encoding
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