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import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.TimeZone;


/**
 * General purpose request parsing and encoding utility methods.
 *
 * @author Craig R. McClanahan
 * @author Tim Tye
 * @version $Revision: 901 $ $Date: 2009-01-15 16:49:36 +0100 (Thu, 15 Jan 2009) $
 */

public final class RequestUtil {
    /**
     * The DateFormat to use for generating readable dates in cookies.
     */
    private static SimpleDateFormat format =
        new SimpleDateFormat(" EEEE, dd-MMM-yy kk:mm:ss zz");

    static {
        format.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("GMT"));
    }
    /**
     * Filter the specified message string for characters that are sensitive
     * in HTML.  This avoids potential attacks caused by including JavaScript
     * codes in the request URL that is often reported in error messages.
     *
     * @param message The message string to be filtered
     */
    public static String filter(String message) {

        if (message == null)
            return (null);

        char content[] = new char[message.length()];
        message.getChars(0, message.length(), content, 0);
        StringBuffer result = new StringBuffer(content.length + 50);
        for (int i = 0; i < content.length; i++) {
            switch (content[i]) {
            case '<':
                result.append("&lt;");
                break;
            case '>':
                result.append("&gt;");
                break;
            case '&':
                result.append("&amp;");
                break;
            case '"':
                result.append("&quot;");
                break;
            default:
                result.append(content[i]);
            }
        }
        return (result.toString());

    }


    /**
     * Normalize a relative URI path that may have relative values ("/./",
     * "/../", and so on ) it it.  <strong>WARNING</strong> - This method is
     * useful only for normalizing application-generated paths.  It does not
     * try to perform security checks for malicious input.
     *
     * @param path Relative path to be normalized
     */
    public static String normalize(String path) {
        return normalize(path, true);
    }

    /**
     * Normalize a relative URI path that may have relative values ("/./",
     * "/../", and so on ) it it.  <strong>WARNING</strong> - This method is
     * useful only for normalizing application-generated paths.  It does not
     * try to perform security checks for malicious input.
     *
     * @param path Relative path to be normalized
     * @param replaceBackSlash Should '\\' be replaced with '/'
     */
    public static String normalize(String path, boolean replaceBackSlash) {

        if (path == null)
            return null;

        // Create a place for the normalized path
        String normalized = path;

        if (replaceBackSlash && normalized.indexOf('\\') >= 0)
            normalized = normalized.replace('\\', '/');

        if (normalized.equals("/."))
            return "/";

        // Add a leading "/" if necessary
        if (!normalized.startsWith("/"))
            normalized = "/" + normalized;

        // Resolve occurrences of "//" in the normalized path
        while (true) {
            int index = normalized.indexOf("//");
            if (index < 0)
                break;
            normalized = normalized.substring(0, index) +
                normalized.substring(index + 1);
        }

        // Resolve occurrences of "/./" in the normalized path
        while (true) {
            int index = normalized.indexOf("/./");
            if (index < 0)
                break;
            normalized = normalized.substring(0, index) +
                normalized.substring(index + 2);
        }

        // Resolve occurrences of "/../" in the normalized path
        while (true) {
            int index = normalized.indexOf("/../");
            if (index < 0)
                break;
            if (index == 0)
                return (null);  // Trying to go outside our context
            int index2 = normalized.lastIndexOf('/', index - 1);
            normalized = normalized.substring(0, index2) +
                normalized.substring(index + 3);
        }

        // Return the normalized path that we have completed
        return (normalized);

    }


    /**
     * Append request parameters from the specified String to the specified
     * Map.  It is presumed that the specified Map is not accessed from any
     * other thread, so no synchronization is performed.
     * <p>
     * <strong>IMPLEMENTATION NOTE</strong>:  URL decoding is performed
     * individually on the parsed name and value elements, rather than on
     * the entire query string ahead of time, to properly deal with the case
     * where the name or value includes an encoded "=" or "&" character
     * that would otherwise be interpreted as a delimiter.
     *
     * @param map Map that accumulates the resulting parameters
     * @param data Input string containing request parameters
     *
     * @exception IllegalArgumentException if the data is malformed
     */
    public static void parseParameters(Map map, String data, String encoding)
        throws UnsupportedEncodingException {

        if ((data != null) && (data.length() > 0)) {

            // use the specified encoding to extract bytes out of the
            // given string so that the encoding is not lost. If an
            // encoding is not specified, let it use platform default
            byte[] bytes = null;
            try {
                if (encoding == null) {
                    bytes = data.getBytes();
                } else {
                    bytes = data.getBytes(encoding);
                }
            } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException uee) {
            }

            parseParameters(map, bytes, encoding);
        }

    }


    /**
     * Decode and return the specified URL-encoded String.
     * When the byte array is converted to a string, the system default
     * character encoding is used...  This may be different than some other
     * servers. It is assumed the string is not a query string.
     *
     * @param str The url-encoded string
     *
     * @exception IllegalArgumentException if a '%' character is not followed
     * by a valid 2-digit hexadecimal number
     */
    public static String URLDecode(String str) {

        return URLDecode(str, null);

    }


    /**
     * Decode and return the specified URL-encoded String. It is assumed the
     * string is not a query string.
     *
     * @param str The url-encoded string
     * @param enc The encoding to use; if null, the default encoding is used
     * @exception IllegalArgumentException if a '%' character is not followed
     * by a valid 2-digit hexadecimal number
     */
    public static String URLDecode(String str, String enc) {
        return URLDecode(str, enc, false);
    }

    /**
     * Decode and return the specified URL-encoded String.
     *
     * @param str The url-encoded string
     * @param enc The encoding to use; if null, the default encoding is used
     * @param isQuery Is this a query string being processed
     * @exception IllegalArgumentException if a '%' character is not followed
     * by a valid 2-digit hexadecimal number
     */
    public static String URLDecode(String str, String enc, boolean isQuery) {
        if (str == null)
            return (null);

        // use the specified encoding to extract bytes out of the
        // given string so that the encoding is not lost. If an
        // encoding is not specified, let it use platform default
        byte[] bytes = null;
        try {
            if (enc == null) {
                bytes = str.getBytes();
            } else {
                bytes = str.getBytes(enc);
            }
        } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException uee) {}

        return URLDecode(bytes, enc, isQuery);

    }


    /**
     * Decode and return the specified URL-encoded byte array.
     *
     * @param bytes The url-encoded byte array
     * @exception IllegalArgumentException if a '%' character is not followed
     * by a valid 2-digit hexadecimal number
     */
    public static String URLDecode(byte[] bytes) {
        return URLDecode(bytes, null);
    }


    /**
     * Decode and return the specified URL-encoded byte array.
     *
     * @param bytes The url-encoded byte array
     * @param enc The encoding to use; if null, the default encoding is used
     * @exception IllegalArgumentException if a '%' character is not followed
     * by a valid 2-digit hexadecimal number
     */
    public static String URLDecode(byte[] bytes, String enc) {
        return URLDecode(bytes, null, false);
    }

    /**
     * Decode and return the specified URL-encoded byte array.
     *
     * @param bytes The url-encoded byte array
     * @param enc The encoding to use; if null, the default encoding is used
     * @param isQuery Is this a query string being processed
     * @exception IllegalArgumentException if a '%' character is not followed
     * by a valid 2-digit hexadecimal number
     */
    public static String URLDecode(byte[] bytes, String enc, boolean isQuery) {

        if (bytes == null)
            return (null);

        int len = bytes.length;
        int ix = 0;
        int ox = 0;
        while (ix < len) {
            byte b = bytes[ix++];     // Get byte to test
            if (b == '+' && isQuery) {
                b = (byte)' ';
            } else if (b == '%') {
                b = (byte) ((convertHexDigit(bytes[ix++]) << 4)
                            + convertHexDigit(bytes[ix++]));
            }
            bytes[ox++] = b;
        }
        if (enc != null) {
            try {
                return new String(bytes, 0, ox, enc);
            } catch (Exception e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
            }
        }
        return new String(bytes, 0, ox);

    }


    /**
     * Convert a byte character value to hexidecimal digit value.
     *
     * @param b the character value byte
     */
    private static byte convertHexDigit( byte b ) {
        if ((b >= '0') && (b <= '9')) return (byte)(b - '0');
        if ((b >= 'a') && (b <= 'f')) return (byte)(b - 'a' + 10);
        if ((b >= 'A') && (b <= 'F')) return (byte)(b - 'A' + 10);
        return 0;
    }


    /**
     * Put name and value pair in map.  When name already exist, add value
     * to array of values.
     *
     * @param map The map to populate
     * @param name The parameter name
     * @param value The parameter value
     */
    private static void putMapEntry( Map map, String name, String value) {
        String[] newValues = null;
        String[] oldValues = (String[]) map.get(name);
        if (oldValues == null) {
            newValues = new String[1];
            newValues[0] = value;
        } else {
            newValues = new String[oldValues.length + 1];
            System.arraycopy(oldValues, 0, newValues, 0, oldValues.length);
            newValues[oldValues.length] = value;
        }
        map.put(name, newValues);
    }


    /**
     * Append request parameters from the specified String to the specified
     * Map.  It is presumed that the specified Map is not accessed from any
     * other thread, so no synchronization is performed.
     * <p>
     * <strong>IMPLEMENTATION NOTE</strong>:  URL decoding is performed
     * individually on the parsed name and value elements, rather than on
     * the entire query string ahead of time, to properly deal with the case
     * where the name or value includes an encoded "=" or "&" character
     * that would otherwise be interpreted as a delimiter.
     *
     * NOTE: byte array data is modified by this method.  Caller beware.
     *
     * @param map Map that accumulates the resulting parameters
     * @param data Input string containing request parameters
     * @param encoding Encoding to use for converting hex
     *
     * @exception UnsupportedEncodingException if the data is malformed
     */
    public static void parseParameters(Map map, byte[] data, String encoding)
        throws UnsupportedEncodingException {

        if (data != null && data.length > 0) {
            int    ix = 0;
            int    ox = 0;
            String key = null;
            String value = null;
            while (ix < data.length) {
                byte c = data[ix++];
                switch ((char) c) {
                case '&':
                    value = new String(data, 0, ox, encoding);
                    if (key != null) {
                        putMapEntry(map, key, value);
                        key = null;
                    }
                    ox = 0;
                    break;
                case '=':
                    if (key == null) {
                        key = new String(data, 0, ox, encoding);
                        ox = 0;
                    } else {
                        data[ox++] = c;
                    }                   
                    break;  
                case '+':
                    data[ox++] = (byte)' ';
                    break;
                case '%':
                    data[ox++] = (byte)((convertHexDigit(data[ix++]) << 4)
                                    + convertHexDigit(data[ix++]));
                    break;
                default:
                    data[ox++] = c;
                }
            }
            //The last value does not end in '&'.  So save it now.
            if (key != null) {
                value = new String(data, 0, ox, encoding);
                putMapEntry(map, key, value);
            }
        }

    }



}








25.12.Request
25.12.1.Print Request Headers for a Servlet
25.12.2.Get Servlet Request Parameter
25.12.3.Get Remote User and display welcome message
25.12.4.Get Users IP Address
25.12.5.Get Remote Host from Servlet Request
25.12.6.Request parsing and encoding utility methods