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[PATCH 2/2] gitweb: remove invalid http-equiv="content-type"

From
Jason Yundt <jason@jasonyundt.email>
Date
Mar 7, 2022, 03:37 UTC
Message-ID
<20220307033723.175553-3-jason@jasonyundt.email>
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<20220307033723.175553-1-jason@jasonyundt.email>
Before this change, gitweb would generate pages which included:
	<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="application/xhtml+xml; charset=utf-8"/>

A meta element with http-equiv="content-type" is said to be in the "Encoding declaration state". According to the HTML Standard,

	The Encoding declaration state may be used in HTML documents,
	but elements with an http-equiv attribute in that state must not
	be used in XML documents.
	Source: <https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/semantics.html#attr-meta-http-equiv-content-type>

This change removes that meta element since gitweb always generates XML documents.

Signed-off-by: Jason Yundt <jason@jasonyundt.email>
---
 gitweb/gitweb.perl                        |  4 +---
 t/t9502-gitweb-standalone-parse-output.sh | 13 +++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/gitweb/gitweb.perl b/gitweb/gitweb.perl
index fbd1c20a23..606b50104c 100755
--- a/gitweb/gitweb.perl
+++ b/gitweb/gitweb.perl
@@ -4213,8 +4213,7 @@ sub git_header_html {
 	my %opts = @_;
 
 	my $title = get_page_title();
-	my $content_type = get_content_type_html();
-	print $cgi->header(-type=>$content_type, -charset => 'utf-8',
+	print $cgi->header(-type=>get_content_type_html(), -charset => 'utf-8',
 	                   -status=> $status, -expires => $expires)
 		unless ($opts{'-no_http_header'});
 	my $mod_perl_version = $ENV{'MOD_PERL'} ? " $ENV{'MOD_PERL'}" : '';
@@ -4225,7 +4224,6 @@ sub git_header_html {
 <!-- git web interface version $version, (C) 2005-2006, Kay Sievers <kay.sievers\@vrfy.org>, Christian Gierke -->
 <!-- git core binaries version $git_version -->
 <head>
-<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="$content_type; charset=utf-8"/>
 <meta name="generator" content="gitweb/$version git/$git_version$mod_perl_version"/>
 <meta name="robots" content="index, nofollow"/>
 <title>$title</title>
diff --git a/t/t9502-gitweb-standalone-parse-output.sh b/t/t9502-gitweb-standalone-parse-output.sh
index e7363511dd..25165edacc 100755
--- a/t/t9502-gitweb-standalone-parse-output.sh
+++ b/t/t9502-gitweb-standalone-parse-output.sh
@@ -207,4 +207,17 @@ test_expect_success 'xss checks' '
 	xss "" "$TAG+"
 '
 
+no_http_equiv_content_type() {
+	gitweb_run "$@" &&
+	! grep -Ei "http-equiv=['\"]?content-type" gitweb.body
+}
+
+# See: <https://html.spec.whatwg.org/dev/semantics.html#attr-meta-http-equiv-content-type>
+test_expect_success 'no http-equiv="content-type" in XHTML' '
+	no_http_equiv_content_type &&
+	no_http_equiv_content_type "p=.git" &&
+	no_http_equiv_content_type "p=.git;a=log" &&
+	no_http_equiv_content_type "p=.git;a=tree"
+'
+
 test_done
-- 
2.35.1
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  1. 0/2 gitweb: remove invalid http-equiv="content-type"Jason Yundt, Mar 7, 2022
  2. 1/2 comment: fix typoJason Yundt, Mar 7, 2022
  3. 2/2 gitweb: remove invalid http-equiv="content-type"Jason Yundt, Mar 7, 2022
  4. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonMar 7, 2022
  5. Jason YundtMar 7, 2022
  6. brian m. carlsonMar 7, 2022
  7. 0/2 gitweb: remove invalid http-equiv="content-type"Jason Yundt, Mar 8, 2022
  8. Junio C HamanoMar 8, 2022
  9. Jason YundtMar 8, 2022
  10. 0/2 gitweb: remove invalid http-equiv="content-type"Jason Yundt, Mar 8, 2022
  11. 2/2 gitweb: remove invalid http-equiv="content-type"Jason Yundt, Mar 8, 2022
  12. 1/2 comment: fix typoJason Yundt, Mar 8, 2022
  13. 2/2 gitweb: remove invalid http-equiv="content-type"Jason Yundt, Mar 8, 2022
  14. brian m. carlsonMar 8, 2022
  15. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonMar 8, 2022
  16. Jason YundtMar 8, 2022
  17. 1/2 comment: fix typoJason Yundt, Mar 8, 2022

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