Re: [libmicrohttpd] Raw query string issue

[Christian Grothoff]

Hi Justin,

You are right, there was indeed a regression in 0.9.61. I've fixed this
in d640ad82..f6ee589d and added a test (we didn't have one!).


Happy hacking!

Christian

On 2/6/19 8:44 PM, Justin Graves wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> First off, thank you for all of the hard work on libmicrohttpd!
> 
> I have built an API using the library, but have an issue with retrieving
> the raw query string, and query string parsing in general. I have
> implemented the MHD_OPTION_URI_LOG_CALLBACK function, but the URI
> provided here has been partially parsed already. More specifically, if I
> send a query string param with an encoded ampersand, such as
> "q=this%20%26%20that", I expect this callback to have exactly that text
> in the passed in uri. However, what I receive is "q=this & that". Not
> only does this not allow me to log/record/parse the original values, but
> it breaks the built-in parser later, as it will attempt to split the
> query string at this now-decoded &. As far as I can tell, this makes it
> impossible to use an ampersand in a passed-in query string value.
> 
> Am I mistaken? Or perhaps there is alternative functionality or options
> I am unaware of here.
> 
> Thank you for any help!
> 
> -
> Justin Graves

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