Slash after /about

Slash after /about

[@ 2019-01-29 9:21 UTC (permalink / raw)]

Hello,

For CGI I use thttpd and it tends to remove terminating slashes in the requests.

cgit wants to have slash after about/ .

So they do not work together, endless loop happens.  Proposed fix:

diff --git a/cmd.c b/cmd.c
--- a/cmd.c
+++ b/cmd.c
@@ -40,16 +40,7 @@ static void atom_fn(void)
 static void about_fn(void)
 {
        if (ctx.repo) {
-               size_t path_info_len = ctx.env.path_info ? strlen(ctx.env.path_info) : 0;
-               if (!ctx.qry.path &&
-                   ctx.qry.url[strlen(ctx.qry.url) - 1] != '/' &&
-                   (!path_info_len || ctx.env.path_info[path_info_len - 1] != '/')) {
-                       char *currenturl = cgit_currenturl();
-                       char *redirect = fmtalloc("%s/", currenturl);
-                       cgit_redirect(redirect, true);
-                       free(currenturl);
-                       free(redirect);
-               } else if (ctx.repo->readme.nr)
+               if (ctx.repo->readme.nr)
                        cgit_print_repo_readme(ctx.qry.path);
                else if (ctx.repo->homepage)
                        cgit_redirect(ctx.repo->homepage, false);



Apart of this the alphabetical sort order of the options in cgitrc.5 is violated by case-sensitive-sort, it shall not be
between cache-size and cache-scanrc-ttl .

Regards
  ?????

Slash after /about

[@ 2019-01-29 18:58 UTC (permalink / raw)]

Hi,

without saying anything about the particular change, I find  the 
behavior of thttpd in this regard to be slighly irritating: I know more 
than one software, where 'bar/foo' and 'bar/foo/' might represent two 
different things (mostly the former being 'service bar with argument 
foo' and the latter being 'service bar/foo with an empty argument').

- Ren?

On 29.01.19 10:21, ????? ???????? wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> For CGI I use thttpd and it tends to remove terminating slashes in the requests.
> 
> cgit wants to have slash after about/ .
> 
> So they do not work together, endless loop happens.  Proposed fix:
> 
> diff --git a/cmd.c b/cmd.c
> --- a/cmd.c
> +++ b/cmd.c
> @@ -40,16 +40,7 @@ static void atom_fn(void)
>   static void about_fn(void)
>   {
>          if (ctx.repo) {
> -               size_t path_info_len = ctx.env.path_info ? strlen(ctx.env.path_info) : 0;
> -               if (!ctx.qry.path &&
> -                   ctx.qry.url[strlen(ctx.qry.url) - 1] != '/' &&
> -                   (!path_info_len || ctx.env.path_info[path_info_len - 1] != '/')) {
> -                       char *currenturl = cgit_currenturl();
> -                       char *redirect = fmtalloc("%s/", currenturl);
> -                       cgit_redirect(redirect, true);
> -                       free(currenturl);
> -                       free(redirect);
> -               } else if (ctx.repo->readme.nr)
> +               if (ctx.repo->readme.nr)
>                          cgit_print_repo_readme(ctx.qry.path);
>                  else if (ctx.repo->homepage)
>                          cgit_redirect(ctx.repo->homepage, false);
> 
> 
> 
> Apart of this the alphabetical sort order of the options in cgitrc.5 is violated by case-sensitive-sort, it shall not be
> between cache-size and cache-scanrc-ttl .
> 
> Regards
>    ?????
> 
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> 

Slash after /about

[Dilyan.Palauzov]

Hello Ren?,

in case of cgit /repo/about/ and /repo/about are the same, except the latter causes a redirect to the former.

I propose removing the redirect and handling them as equal.

Regards
  ?????

On January 29, 2019 7:58:26 PM GMT+01:00, "Ren? Neumann" <lists at necoro.eu> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>without saying anything about the particular change, I find  the 
>behavior of thttpd in this regard to be slighly irritating: I know more
>
>than one software, where 'bar/foo' and 'bar/foo/' might represent two 
>different things (mostly the former being 'service bar with argument 
>foo' and the latter being 'service bar/foo with an empty argument').
>
>- Ren?
>
>On 29.01.19 10:21, ????? ???????? wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> For CGI I use thttpd and it tends to remove terminating slashes in
>the requests.
>> 
>> cgit wants to have slash after about/ .
>> 
>> So they do not work together, endless loop happens.  Proposed fix:
>> 
>> diff --git a/cmd.c b/cmd.c
>> --- a/cmd.c
>> +++ b/cmd.c
>> @@ -40,16 +40,7 @@ static void atom_fn(void)
>>   static void about_fn(void)
>>   {
>>          if (ctx.repo) {
>> -               size_t path_info_len = ctx.env.path_info ?
>strlen(ctx.env.path_info) : 0;
>> -               if (!ctx.qry.path &&
>> -                   ctx.qry.url[strlen(ctx.qry.url) - 1] != '/' &&
>> -                   (!path_info_len ||
>ctx.env.path_info[path_info_len - 1] != '/')) {
>> -                       char *currenturl = cgit_currenturl();
>> -                       char *redirect = fmtalloc("%s/", currenturl);
>> -                       cgit_redirect(redirect, true);
>> -                       free(currenturl);
>> -                       free(redirect);
>> -               } else if (ctx.repo->readme.nr)
>> +               if (ctx.repo->readme.nr)
>>                          cgit_print_repo_readme(ctx.qry.path);
>>                  else if (ctx.repo->homepage)
>>                          cgit_redirect(ctx.repo->homepage, false);
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Apart of this the alphabetical sort order of the options in cgitrc.5
>is violated by case-sensitive-sort, it shall not be
>> between cache-size and cache-scanrc-ttl .
>> 
>> Regards
>>    ?????
>> 
>> _______________________________________________
>> CGit mailing list
>> CGit at lists.zx2c4.com
>> https://lists.zx2c4.com/mailman/listinfo/cgit
>> 
>_______________________________________________
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>CGit at lists.zx2c4.com
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Slash after /about

[john]

On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 09:21:01AM +0000, dilyan.palauzov at aegee.org wrote:
> For CGI I use thttpd and it tends to remove terminating slashes in the requests.
> 
> cgit wants to have slash after about/ .
> 
> So they do not work together, endless loop happens.  Proposed fix:
> 
> diff --git a/cmd.c b/cmd.c
> --- a/cmd.c
> +++ b/cmd.c
> @@ -40,16 +40,7 @@ static void atom_fn(void)
>  static void about_fn(void)
>  {
>         if (ctx.repo) {
> -               size_t path_info_len = ctx.env.path_info ? strlen(ctx.env.path_info) : 0;
> -               if (!ctx.qry.path &&
> -                   ctx.qry.url[strlen(ctx.qry.url) - 1] != '/' &&
> -                   (!path_info_len || ctx.env.path_info[path_info_len - 1] != '/')) {
> -                       char *currenturl = cgit_currenturl();
> -                       char *redirect = fmtalloc("%s/", currenturl);
> -                       cgit_redirect(redirect, true);
> -                       free(currenturl);
> -                       free(redirect);
> -               } else if (ctx.repo->readme.nr)
> +               if (ctx.repo->readme.nr)
>                         cgit_print_repo_readme(ctx.qry.path);
>                 else if (ctx.repo->homepage)
>                         cgit_redirect(ctx.repo->homepage, false);

According to commit d703480 ("about: always ensure page has a trailing
slash") the trailing slash is required for easy embedding of links to
other /about/ pages.

I suspect it's possible to append the trailing slash without going round
a redirect loop, but I don't think this patch will work.

(I'm also inclined to agree that thttpd is broken here and should pass
the URL to CGI scripts as it is received.)