From: Li Yang-r58472 <leoli@freescale.com>
Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2007 09:36:36 GMT
Subject: RE: gitweb not friendly to firefox?
Message-ID: <989B956029373F45A0B8AF02970818902DA81B@zch01exm26.fsl.freescale.net>
In-Reply-To: <7v1wk8i1et.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Hi Jakub,

Problem sovled, using the following patch.  I'm not an expert of perl,
so I don't know if it is problem of the gitweb or problem with my perl
environment.  My environment is perl-5.8.0 and perl-CGI-2.81.

Signed-off-by: Li Yang<leoli@freecale.com>
---
diff --git a/gitweb/gitweb.perl b/gitweb/gitweb.perl
index 653ca3c..8c9a291 100755
--- a/gitweb/gitweb.perl
+++ b/gitweb/gitweb.perl
@@ -591,7 +591,7 @@ sub esc_html ($;%) {
        my %opts = @_;

        $str = to_utf8($str);
-       $str = escapeHTML($str);
+       $str = $cgi->escapeHTML($str);
        if ($opts{'-nbsp'}) {
                $str =~ s/ /&nbsp;/g;
        }


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Junio C Hamano [mailto:junkio@cox.net]
> Sent: Friday, March 02, 2007 2:51 PM
> To: Li Yang-r58472
> Cc: rea-git@codelabs.ru; Raimund Bauer; git@vger.kernel.org; Jakub
Narebski
> Subject: Re: gitweb not friendly to firefox?
> 
> "Li Yang-r58472" <LeoLi@freescale.com> writes:
> 
> >> > Yes, you are right.  But why gitweb didn't do that for me?  I
> > observed
> >> > that some early version of gitweb doesn't have this problem.  Is
it
> >> > possible that some new change caused this?
> >>
> >> It's very possible.
> >
> > Well, I had found out that the escapeHTML() is not functioning on my
> > server.  It leaves the "<", ">", "@" unchanged.  Does anyone have a
clue
> > about it?  I'm using Redhat 9.0 full installation.
> 
> I am not sure offhand if escapeHTML implementation is wrong or
> the call site is calling escapeHTML when it should be using some
> other kinds of escape.
> 
> The person who knows about this issue the best, if I have to
> guess, would be Jakub Narebski.
>