Hi,
first of all: please describe undoubtly in the "Encode/Decode" window that
all characters keyed in or pasted are UTF-8.
This is very important if someon tries to copy&paste data from/to browsers
which use UCS-2.
Said this, here're some oddities you'll stumble over:
1. in the Encode area type
€uro
(where the first character is the Euro currency sign)
then use URL Encode and it correctly encodes to
%E2%82%ACuro
Now try to URL Decode, and you get
\xe2\x82\xacuro
Is this a bug or a feature?
It's neither! But you need to know what w3af's en-/decoding does. Without
that knowledge I'd classify it as bug. That's what most user would belief
also, I assume.
==> See my initial paragraph: just tell the user what the used charset is,
then all such questions are illegal ;-)
==> Otherwise implement "URL Decode (UTF-8)" which should return €uro again.
2. same problem as 1. applies to Base64 Encode and then Base64 Decode
3. in the Decode area type
€uro
then HTML unescape and you get
\xe2\x82\xacuro
Similar problem as 1. above. But I'd consider this a bug in w3af.
Same applies to
€uro
4. in the Encode area type
€uro
then HTML Escape it and you get
€uro
This is a bug too.
5. UTF-8 Encoding return the same as URL Encoding
Do I miss something here?
Otherwise I'd rename UTF-8 Encoding to UTF-8 Encoding (URL).
6. Microsoft %U Encoding for
€uro
returns
%UE282AC%U0075%U0072%U006F
I'm not sure if %UE282AC is really accepted by Micro$oft.
Can someone please check.
7. MySQL Encoding and MSSQL Encoding
use Euro again as string, I doubt that the result is correct.
Sorry for being that pedantic;-)
Achim
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