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[jira] Updated: (EXLBR-15) In org.apache.excalibur.source.impl.FTPSource, URL.getXYZ() results must be URL-decoded
[ http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/EXLBR-15?page=history ]
Nico Verwer updated EXLBR-15:
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Attachment: FTPSource.java
Fixed code for FTPSource, which does proper URL decoding.
> In org.apache.excalibur.source.impl.FTPSource, URL.getXYZ() results must be URL-decoded
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> Key: EXLBR-15
> URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/EXLBR-15
> Project: Excalibur Components
> Type: Bug
> Components: SourceResolver
> Versions: 1.1.1
> Environment: Windows XP, Unix, J2SE 1.4.2
> Reporter: Nico Verwer
> Attachments: FTPSource.java
>
> The getXYZ() methods in java.net.URL give results which are URL-encoded, if the URL was constructed from a String (which must be URL-encoded). This may be considered a bug in java.net.URL, but it is the way it is.
> In order to get the right URL-components (path, userinfo, etc.), the method java.net.URLDecoder.decode() must be applied to the result of java.net.URL.getXYZ(). The result of getUserInfo must first be split (on ':') before decoding is applied.
> Example of how this affects functionality of FTPSource:
> URLs for FTP may contain a password:
> ftp://user:password@host/path
> If the password contains the '@' character, like
> ftp://user:p@ssw0rd@host/path
> this will be interpreted as user 'user' with password 'p' and host 'ssw0rd@host', which is wrong. In order to allow reserved characters in URL's, URL-encoding is used (see RFC 1738 for this particular case, and others). For instance, '@' would be encoded by '%40' in the string-representation of the URL.
> Because URL-components are not decoded in FTPSource, it is impossible to use a password containing '@', or other parts of the URL that contain reserved characters.
> This problem is easy to fix using URLDecoder.
> I'll see if I can attach the code for this fix.
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