[LRUG] Working with bogus URLs

[Erik Eide]

Excellent, I only found it today and remembered your post from a few days
ago

Erik

On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 12:45 PM, David Salgado <david at digitalronin.com>wrote:

> Thanks, Erik. That's exactly what I was looking for. This works fine;
>
>    uri = Addressable::URI.parse to_url
>    r = Net::HTTP.get_response uri.normalize
>
> I'm updating the gem now.
>
> David
>
>
> On 11 October 2011 10:40, Erik Eide <erik.eide at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi David
> > Have you tried Addressable, it doesn't seem to blow up on your input:
> > ruby-1.9.2-p180 :002 >
> > Addressable::URI.parse("
> http://localhost/icinga-web/web/api/service/filter[AND(SERVICE_NAME%7C=%7CIn%20service;AND(SERVICE_CURRENT_STATE%7C!=%7C0))]/countColumn=SERVICE_ID/authkey=xxxxx/json
> ")
> >  => #<Addressable::URI:0x260c140
> > URI:
> http://localhost/icinga-web/web/api/service/filter[AND(SERVICE_NAME%7C=%7CIn%20service;AND(SERVICE_CURRENT_STATE%7C!=%7C0))]/countColumn=SERVICE_ID/authkey=xxxxx/json
> >
> > I think it also has a parse_heuristic method that is trying to figure out
> > what invalid URLs should be..
> > https://github.com/sporkmonger/addressable
> > Regards
> > Erik
> > On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 6:15 PM, David Salgado <david at digitalronin.com>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi Sean
> >>
> >> > Sorry if I'm stating the obvious but have you tried escaping the
> >> > troublesome path components?
> >>
> >> Sorry, I should have mentioned that yes, I have tried various
> >> combinations of CGI.escape and URI.escape/encode
> >>
> >> Whenever I get to something that URI.parse will accept, I just get a
> >> 404 error from the Icinga server!
> >>
> >> > P.S. What were they smoking when they devised that scheme? I'd like
> >> > some.
> >>
> >> I have a feeling they're just doing a straight paste of whatever
> >> parameters are on the URL into an SQL query ... which isn't dangerous
> >> at all, of course.
> >>
> >> D
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