Re: [xml] [long] bugreport: HTTP resource escaping/unescaping fails with quoted URLs

[Stefano Zacchiroli <zack cs unibo it>]

On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 04:43:49PM -0500, Daniel Veillard wrote:
>   Not a big deal just indicate the current version in the report
<snip>
>   I hadn't any time for it. Bugzilla is there to prevent me from
> forgetting about issues which occurs for mail stuff

Ok, I will submit a bug report also to bugzilla so that we have a
'record' of it.

>   It wasn't looking trivial, not fun to do or test, and it still in
> the folder. Provide a patch if you want to garantee fast processing.

Ok. Anyway I wasn't asking for fast processing, just for a bit of
feedback that you have read the mail and you have considered it to be a
bug.

> > I hope that my analysis is correct ...:
>
>   Maybe, I don't know by heart the full set of code, and part of this
> has been really nasty e.g. handling Windoze file names.

Bleeargghh ...

>   then spend time to learn more about it
<snip>
>   and provide a patch. Make it checked for Windows paths and verify it
> passes asll libxml2 and libxslt regression tests. Then you issue
> will get fixed promptly if you don't suggest to make silly things
> like changing APIs

Ok, I can try to have a look at it, but I definitely have no time to
study the libxml/libxslt internal structure; so it can help if you can
give me some additional information.
Mainly I would like to know:
- if you remember the architectural reason why you chose to unescape the
  URI in xmlParserInputBufferCreateFilename
- what do you mean by regerssion testing (is enough running all the
  test* executables available in libxml directory or someone else is
  needed? do those tests includes tests on windoze filenames?)
- assuming that I will be able to make it work, do you like my proposal
  of keep on using the received, still escaped, URI until it reachs
  nanohttp.c?

Thanks,
Cheers.

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