Re: gitweb not friendly to firefox revived

["Uwe Kleine-König" <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>]

On Sun, Aug 01, 2010 at 01:26:16PM -0700, Jakub Narebski wrote:
> Uwe Kleine-König  <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> writes:
> 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > gitweb (at least) doesn't quote author names enough.
> > 
> > Firefox barfs for me at looking at
> > 
> > 	http://git.pengutronix.de/?p=ukl/linux-2.6.git;a=shortlog;h=v2.6.16.10
> > 
> > with an error:
> > 
> > 	XML Parsing Error: not well-formed Location:
> > http://git.pengutronix.de/?p=ukl/linux-2.6.git;a=shortlog;h=v2.6.16.10
> > Line Number 112, Column 81:
> > <td class="author"><a title="Search for commits authored by YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / ?$B5HF#1QL@?(B" class="list" href="/?p=ukl/linux-2.6.git;a=search;h=v2.6.16.10;s=YOSHIFUJI+Hideaki+/+%1B%24B5HF%231QL@%1B(B;st=author"><span title="YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / ?$B5HF#1QL@?(B">YOSHIFUJI Hideaki...  </span></a></td><td><a class="list subject" title="[PATCH] IPV6: XFRM: Fix decoding session with preceding extension header(s)." href="/?p=ukl/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=fa39df2ff7f6102f1f37d3cf1f68243534d56253">[PATCH] IPV6: XFRM: Fix decoding session with preceding... </a></td>
> > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------^
> > 
> > This is with git 1.7.1 and Iceweasel (aka. Firefox) 3.5.10.
> > 
> > Making
> > 
> > 	title=>"Search for commits $performed by $author"
> > 
> > in line 1694 of Debian's /usr/lib/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi from the git 1.7.1
> > package read
> > 
> > 	title=>esc_html("Search for commits $performed by $author")
> > 
> > this problem goes away.  (Still my browser barfs when clicking at the name.)
> > 
> > I'm not sure if this is the right way to fix this and I'm too tired now
> > to do a complete patch, so I let this for someone else.
> 
> Actually gitweb leaves quoting of tag attributes to CGI module:
> 
>   return $cgi->a({-href => href(action=>"search", hash=>$hash,
>                                 searchtext=>$author, searchtype=>$searchtype),
>                   -class => "list",
>                   -title => "Search for commits $performed by $author"},
>                  $displaytext);
> 
> I am worrying (perhaps unnecessary) that using esc_html would result
> in double escaping.  But it looks like the problem is with Unicode,
> so perhaps using
> 
>   	title => to_utf8("Search for commits $performed by $author")
> 
> in place of
> 
>   	title=>esc_html("Search for commits $performed by $author")
> 
> would be a better fix?  Does this fix work for you?
No, this doesn't help.  Firefox still barfs with to_utf8.

With esc_html the code generated is:

<a title="Search for commits authored by YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / <span class="cntrl">\e</span>$B5HF#1QL@<span class="cntrl">\e</span>(B" class="list" href="/?p=.git;a=search;h=f66ab685594d49e570b2176cfa20b03360e9a6e9;s=YOSHIFUJI+Hideaki+/+%1B%24B5HF%231QL@%1B(B;st=author"><span title="YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / ?$B5HF#1QL@?(B">YOSHIFUJI Hideaki...  </span></a>

Thanks
Uwe

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