Re: BUG: quote escaping destroys text (with spec patch)

[Simon Chiang <simon.a.chiang@gmail.com>]

This has tripped up numerous people.  See also:

* http://groups.google.com/group/rack-devel/browse_thread/thread/94b8116ecdef5ec5
* http://groups.google.com/group/rack-devel/browse_thread/thread/befbad49b6409b45
* http://groups.google.com/group/rack-devel/browse_thread/thread/f81f79e633b9e086
* http://github.com/rack/rack/issues#issue/16

A patch that removes quote parsing and fixes the specs (including the
one reported on this thread) is here:
http://github.com/bahuvrihi/rack/commit/ec6edf522d581336a8900e68bde46




On Jun 6, 5:11 am, "Andreas S." <use...@andreas-s.net> wrote:
> SPEC:
>
> diff --git a/test/spec_rack_request.rb b/test/spec_rack_request.rb
> index 43a4b87..cfda3a1 100644
> --- a/test/spec_rack_request.rb
> +++ b/test/spec_rack_request.rb
> @@ -555,4 +555,12 @@ EOF
>        req2.params.should.equal "foo" => "#{b}bar#{b}"
>      end
>    }
> +
> +  specify "should not remove text containing quotes" do
> +    url = "/?foo=" + CGI.escape("bar\n\"baz\"")
> +    env = Rack::MockRequest.env_for(url)
> +    req = Rack::Request.new(env)
> +    req.GET.should.equal "foo" => "bar\n\"baz\""
> +    req.params.should.equal "foo" => "bar\n\"baz\""
> +  end
>  end
>
> RESULT:
>   3) Failure:
> test_spec {Rack::Request} 129 [should not remove text containing
> quotes](Rack::Request) [./test/spec_rack_request.rb:563]:
> <{"foo"=>"bar\n\"baz\""}> expected but was
> <{"foo"=>"baz"}>.