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[PATCH v2 5/8] http: optionally extract charset parameter from content-type

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
May 22, 2014, 09:30 UTC
Message-ID
<20140522093005.GE15032@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To
<20140522092824.GA14530@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Since the previous commit, we now give a sanitized, shortened version of the content-type header to any callers who ask for it.

This patch adds back a way for them to cleanly access specific parameters to the type. We could easily extract all parameters and make them available via a string_list, but:

  1. That complicates the interface and memory management.
  2. In practice, no planned callers care about anything
     except the charset.

This patch therefore goes with the simplest thing, and we can expand or change the interface later if it becomes necessary.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
---
 http.c | 54 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 http.h |  7 +++++++
 2 files changed, 57 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/http.c b/http.c
index 4edf5b9..e26ee8b 100644
--- a/http.c
+++ b/http.c
@@ -907,14 +907,44 @@ static CURLcode curlinfo_strbuf(CURL *curl, CURLINFO info, struct strbuf *buf)
 }
 
 /*
+ * Check for and extract a content-type parameter. "raw"
+ * should be positioned at the start of the potential
+ * parameter, with any whitespace already removed.
+ *
+ * "name" is the name of the parameter. The value is appended
+ * to "out".
+ */
+static int extract_param(const char *raw, const char *name,
+			 struct strbuf *out)
+{
+	size_t len = strlen(name);
+
+	if (strncasecmp(raw, name, len))
+		return -1;
+	raw += len;
+
+	if (*raw != '=')
+		return -1;
+	raw++;
+
+	while (*raw && !isspace(*raw))
+		strbuf_addch(out, *raw++);
+	return 0;
+}
+
+/*
  * Extract a normalized version of the content type, with any
  * spaces suppressed, all letters lowercased, and no trailing ";"
  * or parameters.
  *
+ * If the "charset" argument is not NULL, store the value of any
+ * charset parameter there.
+ *
  * Example:
- *   "TEXT/PLAIN; charset=utf-8" -> "text/plain"
+ *   "TEXT/PLAIN; charset=utf-8" -> "text/plain", "utf-8"
  */
-static void extract_content_type(struct strbuf *raw, struct strbuf *type)
+static void extract_content_type(struct strbuf *raw, struct strbuf *type,
+				 struct strbuf *charset)
 {
 	const char *p;
 
@@ -923,10 +953,25 @@ static void extract_content_type(struct strbuf *raw, struct strbuf *type)
 	for (p = raw->buf; *p; p++) {
 		if (isspace(*p))
 			continue;
-		if (*p == ';')
+		if (*p == ';') {
+			p++;
 			break;
+		}
 		strbuf_addch(type, tolower(*p));
 	}
+
+	if (!charset)
+		return;
+
+	strbuf_reset(charset);
+	while (*p) {
+		while (isspace(*p))
+			p++;
+		if (!extract_param(p, "charset", charset))
+			return;
+		while (*p && !isspace(*p))
+			p++;
+	}
 }
 
 /* http_request() targets */
@@ -983,7 +1028,8 @@ static int http_request(const char *url,
 	if (options && options->content_type) {
 		struct strbuf raw = STRBUF_INIT;
 		curlinfo_strbuf(slot->curl, CURLINFO_CONTENT_TYPE, &raw);
-		extract_content_type(&raw, options->content_type);
+		extract_content_type(&raw, options->content_type,
+				     options->charset);
 		strbuf_release(&raw);
 	}
 
diff --git a/http.h b/http.h
index e64084f..473179b 100644
--- a/http.h
+++ b/http.h
@@ -144,6 +144,13 @@ struct http_get_options {
 	struct strbuf *content_type;
 
 	/*
+	 * If non-NULL, and content_type above is non-NULL, returns
+	 * the charset parameter from the content-type. If none is
+	 * present, returns an empty string.
+	 */
+	struct strbuf *charset;
+
+	/*
 	 * If non-NULL, returns the URL we ended up at, including any
 	 * redirects we followed.
 	 */
-- 
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  1. 0/9 handle alternate charsets for remote http errorsJeff King, May 21, 2014
  2. 1/9 test-lib: preserve GIT_CURL_VERBOSE from the environmentJeff King, May 21, 2014
  3. 2/9 strbuf: add strbuf_tolower functionJeff King, May 21, 2014
  4. Kyle J. McKayMay 22, 2014
  5. Jeff KingMay 22, 2014
  6. Junio C HamanoMay 22, 2014
  7. Jeff KingMay 22, 2014
  8. Junio C HamanoMay 22, 2014
  9. Jeff KingMay 23, 2014
  10. Kyle J. McKayMay 22, 2014
  11. Jeff KingMay 23, 2014
  12. Kyle J. McKayMay 23, 2014
  13. 3/9 daemon/config: factor out duplicate xstrdup_tolowerJeff King, May 21, 2014
  14. 4/9 http: normalize case of returned content-typeJeff King, May 21, 2014
  15. 5/9 t/lib-httpd: use write_script to copy CGI scriptsJeff King, May 21, 2014
  16. 6/9 t5550: test display of remote http error messagesJeff King, May 21, 2014
  17. 7/9 remote-curl: recognize text/plain with a charset parameterJeff King, May 21, 2014
  18. Kyle J. McKayMay 22, 2014
  19. Jeff KingMay 22, 2014
  20. Kyle J. McKayMay 22, 2014
  21. Jeff KingMay 22, 2014
  22. Peter KreftingMay 22, 2014
  23. Jeff KingMay 22, 2014
  24. Peter KreftingMay 22, 2014
  25. 8/9 strbuf: add strbuf_reencode helperJeff King, May 21, 2014
  26. 9/9 remote-curl: reencode http error messagesJeff King, May 21, 2014
  27. Kyle J. McKayMay 22, 2014
  28. Jeff KingMay 22, 2014
  29. Peter KreftingMay 22, 2014
  30. 0/9 handle alternate charsets for remote http errorsJeff King, May 22, 2014
  31. 1/8 test-lib: preserve GIT_CURL_VERBOSE from the environmentJeff King, May 22, 2014
  32. 2/8 t/lib-httpd: use write_script to copy CGI scriptsJeff King, May 22, 2014
  33. 3/8 t5550: test display of remote http error messagesJeff King, May 22, 2014
  34. 4/8 http: extract type/subtype portion of content-typeJeff King, May 22, 2014
  35. Kyle J. McKayMay 22, 2014
  36. Jeff KingMay 23, 2014
  37. Kyle J. McKayMay 23, 2014
  38. 5/8 http: optionally extract charset parameter from content-typeJeff King, May 22, 2014
  39. 6/8 strbuf: add strbuf_reencode helperJeff King, May 22, 2014
  40. 7/8 remote-curl: reencode http error messagesJeff King, May 22, 2014
  41. 8/8 http: default text charset to iso-8859-1Jeff King, May 22, 2014
  42. brian m. carlsonMay 23, 2014

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