Re: Url Encoding/Decoding and static resources

[David Weinrich]

Here is the patch for Tomcat 3.2.x, turned out to be fairly straightforward,
but again there may be a better place to put this fix and there may be
security issues I hadn't considered...Thanks again!

David Weinrich

--- FileUtil.java       Thu Dec 28 19:19:43 2000
+++ FileUtilEd.java     Thu Dec 28 19:20:14 2000
@@ -281,6 +281,11 @@
             }
             patchPath = sb.toString();
         }
+
+    if ( patchPath.indexOf( '%' ) != -1 ) { // contains encoded data
+               patchPath = RequestUtil.URLDecode( patchPath );
+    }
+
        return patchPath;
     }