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receiveHTTP does not preprocess the incoming URI before it is parsed

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
42/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
haskell
Domain
networking

Research direction

Start by reading receiveHTTP and parseRequestHead, then inspect how the incoming request URI reaches Network.URI.parseURIReference. Check the suggested escapeURIString isAllowedInURI behavior for invalid URI characters, and consider both entry points named in the issue. Done means the shown URI is accepted while already valid URIs continue to parse correctly.

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Description

Because of the strict parsing of URIs by Network.URI.parseURIReference, parseRequestHead fails on this "almost valid" URI:

ghci> parseRequestHead ["GET http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Roboto:300|Open+Sans:700|Open+Sans:300&lang=en HTTP/1.1"]
ghci> Left (ErrorParse "parseRequestHead Request command line parse failure: GET http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Roboto:300|Open+Sans:700|Open+Sans:300&lang=en HTTP/1.1")

Replacing the pipe characters with %7C allows the URI to parse.

receiveHTTP, or maybe parseRequestHead, should probably try to escape the characters that are considered invalid for URIs, before sending the string through parseURIReference.

In that regard, escapeURIString isAllowedInURI from Network.URI may be handy.

(Something about "be conservative in what you send, be liberal in what you accept" prompted me to raise this issue.)

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