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[PATCH] gitweb: fix UTF-8 encoding when using CGI::Fast

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JMJulien Moutinho <julm+git@sourcephile.fr>
Date
Mar 29, 2020, 00:20 UTC
Message-ID
<20200329002028.26080-1-julm+git@sourcephile.fr>

FCGI streams are implemented using the older stream API: TIEHANDLE, therefore applying PerlIO layers using binmode() has no effect to them. The solution in this patch is to redefine the FCGI::Stream::PRINT function to use UTF-8 as output encoding, except within git_blob_plain() and git_snapshot() which must still output in raw binary mode.

This problem and solution were previously reported back in 2012:
- http://git.661346.n2.nabble.com/Gitweb-running-as-FCGI-does-not-print-its-output-in-UTF-8-td7573415.html
- http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5005104
Signed-off-by: Julien Moutinho <julm+git@sourcephile.fr>
---
 gitweb/gitweb.perl | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)
diff --git a/gitweb/gitweb.perl b/gitweb/gitweb.perl
index 65a3a9e..1a02a12 100755
--- a/gitweb/gitweb.perl
+++ b/gitweb/gitweb.perl
@@ -1291,9 +1291,23 @@ sub run_request {
 our ($pre_dispatch_hook, $post_dispatch_hook, $pre_listen_hook);
 our $CGI = 'CGI';
 our $cgi;
+our $FCGI_Stream_PRINT_raw = \&FCGI::Stream::PRINT;
 sub configure_as_fcgi {
 	require CGI::Fast;
 	our $CGI = 'CGI::Fast';
+	# FCGI is not Unicode aware hence the UTF-8 encoding must be done manually.
+	# However no encoding must be done within git_blob_plain() and git_snapshot()
+	# which must still output in raw binary mode.
+	no warnings 'redefine';
+	my $enc = Encode::find_encoding('UTF-8');
+	*FCGI::Stream::PRINT = sub {
+		my @OUTPUT = @_;
+		for (my $i = 1; $i < @_; $i++) {
+			$OUTPUT[$i] = $enc->encode($_[$i], Encode::FB_CROAK|Encode::LEAVE_SRC);
+		}
+		@_ = @OUTPUT;
+		goto $FCGI_Stream_PRINT_raw;
+	};
 
 	my $request_number = 0;
 	# let each child service 100 requests
@@ -7079,6 +7093,7 @@ sub git_blob_plain {
 			($sandbox ? 'attachment' : 'inline')
 			. '; filename="' . $save_as . '"');
 	local $/ = undef;
+	local *FCGI::Stream::PRINT = $FCGI_Stream_PRINT_raw;
 	binmode STDOUT, ':raw';
 	print <$fd>;
 	binmode STDOUT, ':utf8'; # as set at the beginning of gitweb.cgi
@@ -7417,6 +7432,7 @@ sub git_snapshot {
 
 	open my $fd, "-|", $cmd
 		or die_error(500, "Execute git-archive failed");
+	local *FCGI::Stream::PRINT = $FCGI_Stream_PRINT_raw;
 	binmode STDOUT, ':raw';
 	print <$fd>;
 	binmode STDOUT, ':utf8'; # as set at the beginning of gitweb.cgi
-- 
2.25.1
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