noticed a line in my gotwebd logs:

: gotweb_process_request: 3a15e1807a369c0a7827363eca22c9f1a8598d9c>diff</a> | <a href=: bad object id string

No idea where it comes from, grepping the codebase we've not forgot
any quotes around the `href' attribute, but this made me recheck
various pages and at least I've found an issue, albeit not sure it's
the one triggering that failure.

The issue is that gotweb_render_url doesn't percent-encode the "
character, that can thus end up in the middle of the URL breaking the
quoting.  This can also lead to security issues if the browser doesn't
honour the Content-Security-Policy.

Note that the ' character was already quoted as mandated by RFC3986.

gotwebd from the latest release should be fine because it doesn't use
the templates yet.  Previously all attribute were quoted with ', so a
raw " in the middle didn't it, but with the move to the templates I've
started to use only " to quote the value, unknwingly introducing this
issue.

ok?


commit 9087ededfe8472a4a54c7e8bbb97250595e8b06d (main)
from: Omar Polo <op@omarpolo.com>
date: Thu Jan  5 11:56:20 2023 UTC
 
 gotwebd: urlencode also the " character
 
 URLs are embedded as part of the HTML and, while it seems legal from
 RFC3986 to leave that character unquoted, we need it quoted to avoid
 breaking the HTML output.
 
diff 4cc7b95a1a3139b5fdf12363376cd6ef877bf3ea 9087ededfe8472a4a54c7e8bbb97250595e8b06d
commit - 4cc7b95a1a3139b5fdf12363376cd6ef877bf3ea
commit + 9087ededfe8472a4a54c7e8bbb97250595e8b06d
blob - 08f7194204d5247935adcee192184a531f881ede
blob + a8fdd952ec48f1a229440e115de67205cf20f049
--- gotwebd/gotweb.c
+++ gotwebd/gotweb.c
@@ -1561,6 +1561,8 @@ should_urlencode(int c)
 	case ',':
 	case ';':
 	case '=':
+		/* needed because the URLs are embedded into the HTML */
+	case '\"':
 		return 1;
 	default:
 		return 0;