Direct POST of SPARQL queries not working correctly when ampersand (&) is involved.

[Aklakan]

Hi,

There is an issue when sending an unencoded SPARQL query with Content-Type: application/sparql-query. Some characters cause issues then (see below).

Because Apache Jena uses this approach for longer query strings it would be very useful if that worked frictionlessly for interoperability.

According to the SPARQL specification

2.1.3 query via POST directly

Protocol clients may send protocol requests via the HTTP POST method by including the query directly and unencoded as the HTTP request message body. When using this approach, clients must include the SPARQL query string, unencoded, and nothing else as the message body of the request. Clients must set the content type header of the HTTP request to application/sparql-query. Clients may include the optional default-graph-uri and named-graph-uri parameters as HTTP query string parameters in the request URI. Note that UTF-8 is the only valid charset here.

POST with form encoding (works)

curl http://localhost:7001 --data-urlencode 'query=SELECT ?s { ?s a ?o FILTER(true && true)} LIMIT 10'

{"head":{"vars":["s"]},"results":{"bindings":[{"s":{"type":"uri","value":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:EntityData/P10"}}   }}

Direct POST without '&&' (works)

curl http://localhost:7001 -H 'Content-Type: application/sparql-query' --data 'SELECT ?s { ?s a ?o } LIMIT 10'

{"head":{"vars":["s"]},"results":{"bindings":[{"s":{"type":"uri","value":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:EntityData/P10"}}   }}

Direct POST with '&&' (fails)

curl http://localhost:7001 -H 'Content-Type: application/sparql-query' --data 'SELECT ?s { ?s a ?o FILTER(true && true)} LIMIT 10'

Parameter without "=" in HTTP Request. . In file "/app/src/util/http/UrlParser.cpp " at line 100

Not sure whether there are further characters that cause problems; in any case there is some issue with encoding/decoding of chars.

[Qup42]

@Aklakan we recently merged #1417 which replaced the old URL parsing code and this should work now. Can you please try again with the newest version?