Re: [Lynx-dev] Gopher: "GET /" urls with query string

[Thomas Dickey]

On Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 05:49:42PM +0200, Tobias Girstmair wrote:
> G'day,
> 
> I'm working on a gopher server implementation [1] and rewriting HTTP-URLs to
> use the "GET /" syntax[2], as understood by lynx. However, I'm having
> trouble with URLs with a query string (in particular, wordpress short URLs):
> lynx always escapes the question mark to %3f.  Then, the server (rightfully)
> complains that the resource wasn't found.
> 
> My gophermap contains this line:
>    hMy Blog Post      GET /?p=1245    domain.net      80
> 
> and when visiting it, lynx then tries access [3]:
>    GET /%3fp%3d1245 HTTP/1.0
> 
> instead of the correct:
>    GET /?p=1245 HTTP/1.0
> 
> It looks to me that the decision to redirect the request onto the WWW
> happens after the URL escaping, so my question is: Is this intended
> behaviour or a bug? (as a bonus Q: any ideas how to get around it?)

I'm not sure (without setting up a test so that I can read the trace, etc):

That is,

        lynx -trace

with the right setup.
 
> greetings,
> Tobias
> 
> [1]: as one does, in 2019 :^)
> [2]: 
> https://github.com/kurtchen/Lynx/blob/8b3a9d48dc6737e2062c5678a28e2829f05094d0/src/LYGetFile.c#L719

That's a little old - you might want to compare with

https://github.com/ThomasDickey/lynx-snapshots

(though I don't recall changing anything for gopher in _that_ file)

> [3]: verified by redirecting domain.net to localhost and running 'nc -l 80'

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