Troubles using special characters in links with lighttpd

[John Keeping]

On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 02:08:23PM +0200, David Demelier wrote:
> I'm trying to setup cgit with lighttpd, this is my actual
> configuration :
> 
> $HTTP["host"] == "git.malikania.fr" {
>         alias.url = (
>                 "/static/" => "/usr/local/www/cgit/",
>                 "/cgit.cgi" => "/usr/local/www/cgit/cgit.cgi",
>         )
>         url.rewrite-once =
> (                                                                                                                                                                     
>                 "^/static/.*$" => "$0",
>                 "^/([^?/]+/[^?]*)?(?:\?(.*))?$" => "/cgit.cgi?url=$1&
> $2",
>         )
>         server.document-root = "/usr/local/www/cgit"
>         cgi.assign = ( ".cgi" => "/usr/local/www/cgit/cgit.cgi" )
> }
> 
> 
> I have found several documents about that, this is mainly written from
> [1].
> 
> Almost everythin works, except directories that contains special
> characters that should be escaped. For example, I have a directory named
> "C++", and this one will not work from the rewrite rule:
> 
> http://git.malikania.fr/code/tree/
> 
> If you click on C++, you get an empty directory, however, the resolved
> link with appropriate characters works fine:
> 
> http://git.malikania.fr/code/tree/C%2b%2b
> 
> I have no idea how to fix that, is it a lighttpd problem or a cgit
> configuration missing?

I think CGit should be encoding the '+' in the path here, but according
to [1] that isn't required in the path element of a URL, so something
else must be wrong.

The patch below should cause CGit to escape the '+', but I haven't had
time to analyze the full implications, so I'm not sure if it will break
anything else (a cursory look suggests it will be OK but I want to spend
a bit more time examining all the callers before sending a proper
patch).

[1] http://blog.lunatech.com/2009/02/03/what-every-web-developer-must-know-about-url-encoding

-- >8 --
diff --git a/html.c b/html.c
index 155cde5..c61db1c 100644
--- a/html.c
+++ b/html.c
@@ -222,7 +222,7 @@ void html_url_path(const char *txt)
 	while (t && *t) {
 		unsigned char c = *t;
 		const char *e = url_escape_table[c];
-		if (e && c != '+' && c != '&') {
+		if (e && c != '&') {
 			html_raw(txt, t - txt);
 			html(e);
 			txt = t + 1;