From: Marco Atzeri <marco.atzeri@gmail.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Cygwin package search and cygcheck -p urlencoding still broken on new web server
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2020 09:44:33 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f6e7d3b9-eef8-5991-59f8-905db3a8fc53@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9c03bed5-da26-512c-3c31-ed6cd59f8043@SystematicSw.ab.ca>
On 16.07.2020 06:25, Brian Inglis wrote:
> On 2020-07-15 14:13, Marco Atzeri via Cygwin wrote:
>> Problem: I want to search for
>> libssh/libssh.h
>> Using https://cygwin.com/packages/
>> If I put the name and press Go the URL is changed in
>> https://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi?grep=libssh%2Flibssh.h&arch=x86_64
>> and the output is
>> Found 0 matches for libsshx2Flibssh.h
>> ^^^
>> Instead if I modify directly the URL in:
>> https://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi?grep=libssh/libssh.h&arch=x86_64
>> Found 3 matches for libssh/libssh.h
>> ....
>> I guess that the current incapability is due to spurious urlencode in
>> cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi
>> that is modifing the $param_grep
>> echo '<li><a href="package-cat.cgi?file='`urlencode
>> $partfile`'&grep='`urlencode $param_grep`'">'$file'</a> - '$desc'</li>'
>> Could someone double check my guess ?
>
> No change since your report on May 2nd, and my cross-post to overseers:
>
> https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2020-May/244684.html
>
> https://sourceware.org/pipermail/overseers/2020q2/017115.html
>
> where Frank suggested replacing badly urlencoded characters by ".":
this works as the dot is not changed
case $c in
[a-zA-Z0-9.~_-]) printf "$c" ;;
*) printf '%%%02X' "'$c"
> $ cygcheck -p libssh/libssh.h
> Found 0 matches for libsshx2flibssh.h
> $ cygcheck -p libssh.libssh.h
> Found 3 matches for libssh.libssh.h
> libssh-devel-0.7.3-1 - libssh-devel: SSH implementation library (installed
> binaries and support files)
> libssh-devel-0.7.5-1 - libssh-devel: SSH implementation library
> libssh-devel-0.8.7-1 - libssh-devel: SSH implementation library
>
> The previous break appears to have been fixed by or due to Achim:
>
> https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2019-November/243112.html
>
> Ping Achim?!
>
the git logs says that only Frank and Jon have recently worked on
cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi
I would like to doble check any possible modification before proposing a
patch to change the web server...
Regards
Marco
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-07-16 7:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-07-15 20:13 Broken search on webserver Marco Atzeri
2020-07-16 4:25 ` Cygwin package search and cygcheck -p urlencoding still broken on new web server Brian Inglis
2020-07-16 7:44 ` Marco Atzeri [this message]
2020-07-16 13:42 ` Jon Turney
2020-07-16 18:48 ` Marco Atzeri
2020-07-16 20:22 ` Brian Inglis
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=f6e7d3b9-eef8-5991-59f8-905db3a8fc53@gmail.com \
--to=marco.atzeri@gmail.com \
--cc=cygwin@cygwin.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).