[libvirt] [PATCH] Fix URL-escaping for domainDefine

Daniel Veillard veillard at redhat.com
Fri Sep 9 07:22:42 UTC 2011


On Thu, Sep 08, 2011 at 04:34:10PM +0200, Philipp Hahn wrote:
> '+' in strings get translated to ' ' when editing domains.
> While xenDaemonDomainCreateXML() did URL-escape the sexpr,
> xenDaemonDomainDefineXML() did not.
> 
> Remove the explicit urlencode() in xenDaemonDomainCreateXML() and add
> the direct encoding calls to xend_op_ext() because it calls xend_post()
> which uses "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded". According
> to <http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/interact/forms.html#h-17.13.4.1> this
> requires all parameters to be url-encoded as specified in rfc1738.
> 
> Notice: virBufferAsprintf(..., "%s=%s", ...) is again replaced by three
> calls to virBufferURIEncodeString() and virBufferAddChar() because '='
> is a "reserved" character, which would get escaped by
> virBufferURIEncodeString(), which - by the way - escapes anything not
> c_isalnum().

  ACK, interesting cleanup too :-)

Daniel

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