> -----Original Message-----
> From: Branko Čibej [mailto:br...@wandisco.com]
> Sent: vrijdag 23 augustus 2013 06:55
> To: dev@subversion.apache.org
> Subject: Re: Assertion in svn_uri_is_canonical
>
> On 23.08.2013 06:51, Branko Čibej wrote:
> > On 23.08.2013 01:28, Branko Čibej wrote:
> >> On 23.08.2013 01:04, Philip Martin wrote:
> >>> Branko Čibej <br...@wandisco.com> writes:
> >>>
> >>>> On 22.08.2013 22:40, Branko Čibej wrote:
> >>>>> On 22.08.2013 18:11, kmra...@rockwellcollins.com wrote:
> >>>>>> Passing an invalid URL to svn co causes an abort and core dump. This
> >>>>>> fails with all protocols
> >>>>>> http, svn, file. It occurs with all versions I tested (1.7.5, 1.7.11,
> >>>>>> 1.7.12, 1.8.1, and the now defunct 1.8.2)
> >>>>>> It occurs with multiple subcommand (ls, info, etc.) It happens on
> >>>>>> both unix and windows platforms.
> >>>>>> The "abort" is especially bad on Windows since it will pop open a
> >>>>>> dialog window due to the abort.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> It is expected that the command line would return an appropriate
> user
> >>>>>> friendly error message
> >>>>>> instead of crashing when faced with invalid input.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> ./svn co file://./test <file://test>
> >>>>>> svn: subversion/libsvn_subr/dirent_uri.c:1315: svn_uri_basename:
> >>>>>> Assertion `svn_uri_is_canonical(uri, ((void *)0))' failed.
> >>>>>> Abort (core dumped)
> >>>>> Interesting ... the assertion itself is fine, however, the command-line
> >>>>> client should either reject invalid URL parameters, or canonicalize the
> >>>>> input. Apparently we missed one.
> >>>> Apparently all commands that accept an URL will abort in this way,
> >>>> except for "svn relocate". So it looks like some kind of "policy" but I
> >>>> think it's the wrong one.
> >>> svn_uri_canonicalize allows any characters in hostname, A-Z is converted
> >>> to a-z, other characters are simply copied:
> >>>
> >>> /* Found a hostname, convert to lowercase and copy to dst. */
> >>> if (*src == '[')
> >>> {
> >>> ...
> >>> }
> >>> else
> >>> while (*src && (*src != '/') && (*src != ':'))
> >>> *(dst++) = canonicalize_to_lower((*src++));
> >>>
> >>> What is the canonical form of this?
> >>>
> >>> scheme://./
> >>>
> >>> Should we drop '.' to give:
> >>>
> >>> scheme:///
> >>>
> >>> or do we have to retain it as
> >>>
> >>> scheme://./
> >>>
> >>> and change svn_uri_is_canonical to allow a hostname '.'?
> >> I believe this is relevant:
One associated problem is that our code sometimes assumes that
svn_uri_canonicalize(URL, ..) can canonicalize any string to a valid url, while
this is probably not the case in this specific case.
We inherited this assumption from the old svn_path_*() functions that always
succeeded by chopping of components, which worked because "" is a valid
relative path.
(I don't know what the best solution in this case is for a generic scheme.
file:// is different from svn:// and http:// so to what does this apply).
And in file:// urls we only accept more than trivial hostnames on Windows.
Bert
