Re: Apache2::URI::unescape_url

[Adam Prime]

Ryan Gies wrote:
I'm rather surprised at what I'm seeing, but it appears this method
(Apache2::URI::unescape_url) is not correctly updating the length scalar
variable.  Any thoughts? -Ryan
Output from the below response handler snippet:

  Before: 'http%3A%2F%2Fexample.com'
  After : 'http://example.c...@e.com'

Alternate output (when url encoding the result):

  Before: 'http%3A%2F%2Fexample.com'
  After : 'http://example.com%00e.com/


That's pretty weird.  If you modify it to be:

$url = Apache2::URI::unescape_url($url);

then it works ok, though according to the docs on perl.apache.org it's 
not supposed to have a return value.

Adam

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package Apache2::Test::T1;
use strict;
use Apache2::URI;

sub handler {
  my $r = shift;
  $r->content_type('text/plain');
  my $url = 'http%3A%2F%2Fexample.com';
  $r->print(sprintf("Before: '%s'\n", $url));
  Apache2::URI::unescape_url($url);
  $r->print(sprintf("After : '%s'\n", $url));
  Apache2::Const::OK;
}

1;

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