diff --git a/docs/cmdline-opts/form.d b/docs/cmdline-opts/form.d
index b3251bdb8..d95d0cc38 100644
--- a/docs/cmdline-opts/form.d
+++ b/docs/cmdline-opts/form.d
@@ -57,6 +57,11 @@ or
Note that if a filename/path is quoted by double-quotes, any double-quote
or backslash within the filename must be escaped by backslash.
+Quoting must also be applied to non-file data if it contains semicolons,
+leading/trailing spaces or leading double quotes:
+
+ curl -F 'colors="red; green; blue";type=text/x-myapp' example.com
+
You can add custom headers to the field by setting headers=, like
curl -F "submit=OK;headers=\\"X-submit-type: OK\\"" example.com
diff --git a/src/tool_formparse.c b/src/tool_formparse.c
index b763d88a5..c76fe6f38 100644
--- a/src/tool_formparse.c
+++ b/src/tool_formparse.c
@@ -52,13 +52,12 @@ typedef struct {
* after call get_parm_word, str either point to string end
* or point to any of end chars.
*/
-static char *get_param_word(char **str, char **end_pos)
+static char *get_param_word(char **str, char **end_pos, char endchar)
{
char *ptr = *str;
char *word_begin = NULL;
char *ptr2;
char *escape = NULL;
- const char *end_chars = ";,";
/* the first non-space char is here */
word_begin = ptr;
@@ -88,7 +87,7 @@ static char *get_param_word(char **str, char **end_pos)
while(ptr < *end_pos);
*end_pos = ptr2;
}
- while(*ptr && NULL == strchr(end_chars, *ptr))
+ while(*ptr && *ptr != ';' && *ptr != endchar)
++ptr;
*str = ptr;
return word_begin + 1;
@@ -99,7 +98,7 @@ static char *get_param_word(char **str, char **end_pos)
ptr = word_begin;
}
- while(*ptr && NULL == strchr(end_chars, *ptr))
+ while(*ptr && *ptr != ';' && *ptr != endchar)
++ptr;
*str = *end_pos = ptr;
return word_begin;
@@ -181,9 +180,10 @@ static int read_field_headers(struct OperationConfig *config,
/* NOTREACHED */
}
-static int get_param_part(struct OperationConfig *config, char **str,
- char **pdata, char **ptype, char **pfilename,
- char **pencoder, struct curl_slist **pheaders)
+static int get_param_part(struct OperationConfig *config, char endchar,
+ char **str, char **pdata, char **ptype,
+ char **pfilename, char **pencoder,
+ struct curl_slist **pheaders)
{
char *p = *str;
char *type = NULL;
@@ -208,7 +208,7 @@ static int get_param_part(struct OperationConfig *config, char **str,
while(ISSPACE(*p))
p++;
tp = p;
- *pdata = get_param_word(&p, &endpos);
+ *pdata = get_param_word(&p, &endpos, endchar);
/* If not quoted, strip trailing spaces. */
if(*pdata == tp)
while(endpos > *pdata && ISSPACE(endpos[-1]))
@@ -249,7 +249,7 @@ static int get_param_part(struct OperationConfig *config, char **str,
for(p += 9; ISSPACE(*p); p++)
;
tp = p;
- filename = get_param_word(&p, &endpos);
+ filename = get_param_word(&p, &endpos, endchar);
/* If not quoted, strip trailing spaces. */
if(filename == tp)
while(endpos > filename && ISSPACE(endpos[-1]))
@@ -272,7 +272,7 @@ static int get_param_part(struct OperationConfig *config, char **str,
p++;
} while(ISSPACE(*p));
tp = p;
- hdrfile = get_param_word(&p, &endpos);
+ hdrfile = get_param_word(&p, &endpos, endchar);
/* If not quoted, strip trailing spaces. */
if(hdrfile == tp)
while(endpos > hdrfile && ISSPACE(endpos[-1]))
@@ -300,7 +300,7 @@ static int get_param_part(struct OperationConfig *config, char **str,
while(ISSPACE(*p))
p++;
tp = p;
- hdr = get_param_word(&p, &endpos);
+ hdr = get_param_word(&p, &endpos, endchar);
/* If not quoted, strip trailing spaces. */
if(hdr == tp)
while(endpos > hdr && ISSPACE(endpos[-1]))
@@ -322,7 +322,7 @@ static int get_param_part(struct OperationConfig *config, char **str,
for(p += 8; ISSPACE(*p); p++)
;
tp = p;
- encoder = get_param_word(&p, &endpos);
+ encoder = get_param_word(&p, &endpos, endchar);
/* If not quoted, strip trailing spaces. */
if(encoder == tp)
while(endpos > encoder && ISSPACE(endpos[-1]))
@@ -332,7 +332,7 @@ static int get_param_part(struct OperationConfig *config, char **str,
}
else {
/* unknown prefix, skip to next block */
- char *unknown = get_param_word(&p, &endpos);
+ char *unknown = get_param_word(&p, &endpos, endchar);
sep = *p;
if(endct)
@@ -598,7 +598,8 @@ int formparse(struct OperationConfig *config,
curl_mime *subparts;
/* Starting a multipart. */
- sep = get_param_part(config, &contp, &data, &type, NULL, NULL, &headers);
+ sep = get_param_part(config, '\0',
+ &contp, &data, &type, NULL, NULL, &headers);
if(sep < 0) {
Curl_safefree(contents);
return 3;
@@ -657,7 +658,7 @@ int formparse(struct OperationConfig *config,
/* since this was a file, it may have a content-type specifier
at the end too, or a filename. Or both. */
++contp;
- sep = get_param_part(config, &contp,
+ sep = get_param_part(config, ',', &contp,
&data, &type, &filename, &encoder, &headers);
if(sep < 0) {
if(subparts != *mimecurrent)
@@ -767,7 +768,7 @@ int formparse(struct OperationConfig *config,
if(*contp == '<' && !literal_value) {
++contp;
- sep = get_param_part(config, &contp,
+ sep = get_param_part(config, '\0', &contp,
&data, &type, NULL, &encoder, &headers);
if(sep < 0) {
Curl_safefree(contents);
@@ -796,7 +797,7 @@ int formparse(struct OperationConfig *config,
if(literal_value)
data = contp;
else {
- sep = get_param_part(config, &contp,
+ sep = get_param_part(config, '\0', &contp,
&data, &type, &filename, &encoder, &headers);
if(sep < 0) {
Curl_safefree(contents);
diff --git a/tests/data/test1133 b/tests/data/test1133
index 2238b9c07..b8ed56b2d 100644
--- a/tests/data/test1133
+++ b/tests/data/test1133
@@ -23,10 +23,10 @@ blablabla
http
-HTTP RFC1867-type formposting with filename contains ',', ';', '"'
+HTTP RFC1867-type formposting with filename/data contains ',', ';', '"'
-http://%HOSTIP:%HTTPPORT/we/want/1133 -F "file=@\"log/test1133,a\\\"nd;.txt\";type=mo/foo;filename=\"faker,and;.txt\"" -F 'file2=@"log/test1133,a\"nd;.txt"' -F 'file3=@"log/test1133,a\"nd;.txt";type=m/f,"log/test1133,a\"nd;.txt"'
+http://%HOSTIP:%HTTPPORT/we/want/1133 -F "file=@\"log/test1133,a\\\"nd;.txt\";type=mo/foo;filename=\"faker,and;.txt\"" -F 'file2=@"log/test1133,a\"nd;.txt"' -F 'file3=@"log/test1133,a\"nd;.txt";type=m/f,"log/test1133,a\"nd;.txt"' -F a="{\"field1\":\"value1\",\"field2\":\"value2\"}" -F 'b=" \\value1;type=\"whatever\" "; type=text/foo; charset=utf-8 ; filename=param_b'
# We create this file before the command is invoked!
@@ -47,7 +47,8 @@ POST /we/want/1133 HTTP/1.1
User-Agent: curl/7.10.4 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.10.4 OpenSSL/0.9.7a ipv6 zlib/1.1.3
Host: %HOSTIP:%HTTPPORT
Accept: */*
-Content-Length: 969
+Content-Length: 1270
+Expect: 100-continue
Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=----------------------------24e78000bd32
------------------------------24e78000bd32
@@ -89,6 +90,13 @@ bar
foo
+Content-Disposition: form-data; name="a"
+
+{"field1":"value1","field2":"value2"}
+Content-Disposition: form-data; name="b"; filename="param_b"
+Content-Type: text/foo; charset=utf-8
+
+ \value1;type="whatever"
------------------------------24e78000bd32--