Improve URL encoding and decoding

web/Cargo.toml

@@ -15,6 +15,8 @@ askama = "0.10"
 argh = "0.1.6"
 serde = "1.0"
 serde_yaml = "0.8"
+form_urlencoded = "1.0.1"
+percent-encoding = "2.1.0"
 rusttype = { version = "0.9.2", optional = true }
 image = { version = "0.23.14", optional = true }
 lazy_static = { version = "1.4.0", optional = true }

web/src/main.rs

@@ -3,13 +3,14 @@ pub mod contrast;
 pub mod statics;
 pub mod configuration;
 
-use std::collections::HashMap;
 use crate::configuration::Conf;
 use std::io::IoSlice;
 use crate::statics::StaticAsset;
 use smol::io::AsyncWriteExt;
 use smol::stream::StreamExt;
 use std::borrow::Cow;
+use form_urlencoded;
+use percent_encoding::{percent_decode_str, percent_encode, NON_ALPHANUMERIC};
 use pronouns_today::user_preferences::ParseError;
 use pronouns_today::UserPreferences;
 use configuration::ConfigError;
@@ -167,7 +168,7 @@ fn route_request(req: &ScgiRequest) -> Route {
 		"GET" => (),
 
 		// All POST requests are met with link generation
-		"POST" => return Route::GenerateLink(String::from_utf8_lossy(&req.body).into_owned()),
+		"POST" => return Route::GenerateLink(req.body.clone()),
 
 		// No other methods are supported
 		_ => return Route::BadRequest(BadRequest::MethodNotAllowed),
@@ -267,7 +268,7 @@ enum Route {
 	SendThumbnail(Option<String>, Option<UserPreferences>),
 
 	/// Generate a link to the appropriate pronoun page based on the user's inputs.
-	GenerateLink(String),
+	GenerateLink(Vec<u8>),
 
 	/// There was a problem with the user's request, and an error page should be sent
 	BadRequest(BadRequest),
@@ -325,7 +326,11 @@ impl Route {
 		let pronoun = Route::get_pronoun(name.as_ref(), prefs, settings)?;
 
 		let body = IndexTemplate {
-			name,
+			name: name.map(
+				  |name| percent_decode_str(&name)
+					  .decode_utf8_lossy()
+					  .into_owned()
+			),
 			pronoun,
 			pronouns: settings.pronoun_list.iter().enumerate().collect(),
 			url: format!("{}{}", &conf.base_url, uri),
@@ -369,32 +374,31 @@ impl Route {
 
 	/// The method for the [`Route::GenerateLink`] route
 	fn generate_link(
-        body: String,
+        body: Vec<u8>,
 		settings: &InstanceSettings,
 	) -> Result<Response, BadRequest> {
-        let form = body.split('&')
+        let form = form_urlencoded::parse(&body);
-            .filter_map(|entry| {
-                let mut split = entry.split('=');
-                split.next().map(|key| (
-                        key,
-                        split.next().unwrap_or("")
-                ))
-            })
-            .collect::<HashMap<&str, &str>>();
 
         let mut weights = vec![0; settings.pronoun_list.len()];
-        for (k, v) in form.iter() {
+		let mut name = None;
+        for (k, v) in form {
             if let Ok(i) = k.parse::<usize>() {
                 let w = v.parse::<u8>().map_err(|_| BadRequest::BadFormData((*v).into()))?;
                 if i < weights.len() - 1 {
                     weights[i] = w;
                 }
+            } else if k == "name" {
+				name = Some(v);
 			}
         }
         let prefs = InstanceSettings::create_preferences(&weights);
         let pref_string = prefs.as_prefstring();
-        let url = match form.get("name") {
+        let url = match name {
-            Some(name) if !name.is_empty() => format!("/{}/{}", name, pref_string),
+            Some(name) if !name.is_empty() => format!(
+				"/{}/{}",
+				percent_encode(name.as_bytes(), NON_ALPHANUMERIC),
+				pref_string
+			),
             _ => format!("/{}", pref_string),
         };