Re: [PATCH] gitweb: Make $prevent_xss protection for 'blob_plain' more usable

> Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>>> Hmph, wouldn't it be more straightforward if you dropped the statement
>>> modifier?  I.e.
>>> 
>>> 	my ($subtype, $rest) = ($1, $2);
>>> 	$rest = '' unless defined $rest;
>>> 	$type = "text/plain$rest";
>>
>> Yes, of course.
>>
>> I don't know why I decided that avoiding rewriting 'text/plain; 
>> charset=utf-8' case was important.
> 
> Just to make sure I understand what you are saying...
> 
>     my $type = 'text/plain; charset=utf-8';
>     if ($type =~ m|^text/([a-z]+)\b(.*)$|) {
>  	my ($subtype, $rest) = ($1, $2);
>  	$rest = '' unless defined $rest;
>  	$type = "text/plain$rest";
>         print "Type is now <$type>\n";
>     }
> 
> 
> does yield "text/plain; charset=utf-8". It does rewrite but rewrite to
> exactly the same thing, so...