Problem with special Characters in the URL

[Mads Kiilerich]

On 8/19/21 11:13, Rüdiger Kessel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was faced with an URL encoding problem which caused a 
> mercurial.error.ProgrammingError in mercurial/hgweb/request.py, line 276:
>
> "PATH_INFO does not begin with repo name"
>
> The root cause of the encoding problem is the fact that the wsgi 
> encodes the URL in 'iso-8859-1' but it is in fact utf-8 encoded. It is 
> connected with the use of Python 3.
>
> kallithea/controllers/base.py provides the function which can return 
> the correct path info (get_path_info(environ)).


It could seem like Mercurial still has the problem we fixed in 
https://kallithea-scm.org/repos/kallithea/changeset/6c381371d106 .

But if the problem can be reproduced with plain 'hg serve', it should be 
fixed upstream instead of worked around in Kallithea.

/Mads