Re: [Libevent-users] bad request with evhttp libevent-2.0.10

[Adrian Chadd <adrian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It's best to assume browsers don't do the right thing in 100% of cases.

(Been there, done that with Squid..)


Adrian

On Thu, Jan 13, 2011, Trong Long Dinh wrote:
> I haven't read RFC 3986. Maybe | _is_ an invalid URI character. But what
> happen when i want pass a param contain '|' character. If it's a special
> character, then firefox have to encode it before send to server.
> 
> On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 11:08 AM, Nick Mathewson <nickm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 10:51 PM, Trong Long Dinh
> > <tronglongcntt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > I already review source code of libevent. Ur small code has same mean
> > with
> > > mine. However, Both are meaningless because function  static char *
> > > end_of_path(char *cp, int allow_qchars) not allow '|' character. If uri
> > > query contain '|' character then it response "bad request".
> >
> > Weird.  According to RFC 3986, I think that | _is_ an invalid URI
> > character.  Ugh.  Is there some other standard that specifies how an
> > HTTP URI looks that I should be looking at, or is your browser
> > expecting servers to handle nonconformant URIs?
> >
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