From: Jehan Bing <jehan@orb•com>
To: git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: "Nested quantifiers" error in gitweb with "++" in the filename
Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2011 11:37:23 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EF4D873.4090803@orb.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANgJU+VA9s9t0c8D0P_DesbSDQRBQ6v913KixKQAuiy8jZsdzQ@mail.gmail.com>
On 2011-12-23 08:02, demerphq wrote:
> On 22 December 2011 21:37, Jehan Bing<jehan@orb•com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm getting an error when trying to look at a blob when the filename has
>> "++" in it:
>>
>> http://.../blob/13ec1624fefc23d20d0407aac3337b35844a2ceb:/foo-++.txt
>
> This error comes because the filename is being used a pattern without
> being protected by a quotemeta.
>
> Interestingly, a later version of perl would not have this problem as
> ++ is a legal quantifier as of 5.10, nevertheless it probably wouldnt
> do what you expected.
>
Interestingly, a later version of perl would not have this problem as,
after investigating the problem further, it's actually a bug in CGI.pm
which has since been fixed ;)
My distribution comes with an old version of CGI.pm (3.15 from perl
5.8.8). After updating to the latest, the problem went away.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-12-23 19:37 UTC|newest]
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2011-12-22 20:37 "Nested quantifiers" error in gitweb with "++" in the filename Jehan Bing
2011-12-23 16:02 ` demerphq
2011-12-23 19:37 ` Jehan Bing [this message]
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