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/*
 * Copyright (c) 1997-2018 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
 * Copyright 2004 The Apache Software Foundation
 *
 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
 *
 *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 *
 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 * limitations under the License.
 */

package javax.servlet.http;

import javax.servlet.ServletInputStream;
import java.util.Hashtable;
import java.util.ResourceBundle;
import java.util.StringTokenizer;
import java.io.IOException;

/**
 * @deprecated      As of Java(tm) Servlet API 2.3. 
 *         These methods were only useful
 *         with the default encoding and have been moved
 *         to the request interfaces.
 *
 */
@Deprecated
public class HttpUtils {

    private static final String LSTRING_FILE = "javax.servlet.http.LocalStrings";
    private static ResourceBundle lStrings = ResourceBundle.getBundle(LSTRING_FILE);

    /**
     * Constructs an empty <code>HttpUtils</code> object.
     */
    public HttpUtils() {
    }

    /**
     * Parses a query string passed from the client to the
     * server and builds a <code>HashTable</code> object
     * with key-value pairs. 
     * The query string should be in the form of a string
     * packaged by the GET or POST method, that is, it
     * should have key-value pairs in the form <i>key=value</i>,
     * with each pair separated from the next by a &amp; character.
     *
     * <p>A key can appear more than once in the query string
     * with different values. However, the key appears only once in 
     * the hashtable, with its value being
     * an array of strings containing the multiple values sent
     * by the query string.
     * 
     * <p>The keys and values in the hashtable are stored in their
     * decoded form, so
     * any + characters are converted to spaces, and characters
     * sent in hexadecimal notation (like <i>%xx</i>) are
     * converted to ASCII characters.
     *
     * @param s      a string containing the query to be parsed
     *
     * @return      a <code>HashTable</code> object built
     *          from the parsed key-value pairs
     *
     * @exception IllegalArgumentException if the query string is invalid
     */
    public static Hashtable<String, String[]> parseQueryString(String s) {

        String valArray[] = null;

        if (s == null) {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException();
        }

        Hashtable<String, String[]> ht = new Hashtable<String, String[]>();
        StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
        StringTokenizer st = new StringTokenizer(s, "&");
        while (st.hasMoreTokens()) {
            String pair = st.nextToken();
            int pos = pair.indexOf('=');
            if (pos == -1) {
                // XXX
                // should give more detail about the illegal argument
                throw new IllegalArgumentException();
            }
            String key = parseName(pair.substring(0, pos), sb);
            String val = parseName(pair.substring(pos + 1, pair.length()), sb);
            if (ht.containsKey(key)) {
                String oldVals[] = ht.get(key);
                valArray = new String[oldVals.length + 1];
                for (int i = 0; i < oldVals.length; i++) {
                    valArray[i] = oldVals[i];
                }
                valArray[oldVals.length] = val;
            } else {
                valArray = new String[1];
                valArray[0] = val;
            }
            ht.put(key, valArray);
        }

        return ht;
    }

    /**
     *
     * Parses data from an HTML form that the client sends to 
     * the server using the HTTP POST method and the 
     * <i>application/x-www-form-urlencoded</i> MIME type.
     *
     * <p>The data sent by the POST method contains key-value
     * pairs. A key can appear more than once in the POST data
     * with different values. However, the key appears only once in 
     * the hashtable, with its value being
     * an array of strings containing the multiple values sent
     * by the POST method.
     *
     * <p>The keys and values in the hashtable are stored in their
     * decoded form, so
     * any + characters are converted to spaces, and characters
     * sent in hexadecimal notation (like <i>%xx</i>) are
     * converted to ASCII characters.
     *
     * @param len   an integer specifying the length,
     *         in characters, of the 
     *         <code>ServletInputStream</code>
     *         object that is also passed to this
     *         method
     *
     * @param in   the <code>ServletInputStream</code>
     *         object that contains the data sent
     *         from the client
     * 
     * @return      a <code>HashTable</code> object built
     *         from the parsed key-value pairs
     *
     * @exception IllegalArgumentException if the data
     * sent by the POST method is invalid
     */
    public static Hashtable<String, String[]> parsePostData(int len, ServletInputStream in) {
        // XXX
        // should a length of 0 be an IllegalArgumentException

        if (len <= 0) {
            // cheap hack to return an empty hash
            return new Hashtable<String, String[]>();
        }

        if (in == null) {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException();
        }

        //
        // Make sure we read the entire POSTed body.
        //
        byte[] postedBytes = new byte[len];
        try {
            int offset = 0;

            do {
                int inputLen = in.read(postedBytes, offset, len - offset);
                if (inputLen <= 0) {
                    String msg = lStrings.getString("err.io.short_read");
                    throw new IllegalArgumentException(msg);
                }
                offset += inputLen;
            } while ((len - offset) > 0);

        } catch (IOException e) {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException(e.getMessage());
        }

        // XXX we shouldn't assume that the only kind of POST body
        // is FORM data encoded using ASCII or ISO Latin/1 ... or
        // that the body should always be treated as FORM data.
        //

        try {
            String postedBody = new String(postedBytes, 0, len, "8859_1");
            return parseQueryString(postedBody);
        } catch (java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
            // XXX function should accept an encoding parameter & throw this
            // exception.  Otherwise throw something expected.
            throw new IllegalArgumentException(e.getMessage());
        }
    }

    /*
     * Parse a name in the query string.
     */
    private static String parseName(String s, StringBuilder sb) {
        sb.setLength(0);
        for (int i = 0; i < s.length(); i++) {
            char c = s.charAt(i);
            switch (c) {
            case '+':
                sb.append(' ');
                break;
            case '%':
                try {
                    sb.append((char) Integer.parseInt(s.substring(i + 1, i + 3), 16));
                    i += 2;
                } catch (NumberFormatException e) {
                    // XXX
                    // need to be more specific about illegal arg
                    throw new IllegalArgumentException();
                } catch (StringIndexOutOfBoundsException e) {
                    String rest = s.substring(i);
                    sb.append(rest);
                    if (rest.length() == 2)
                        i++;
                }

                break;
            default:
                sb.append(c);
                break;
            }
        }

        return sb.toString();
    }

    /**
     *
     * Reconstructs the URL the client used to make the request,
     * using information in the <code>HttpServletRequest</code> object.
     * The returned URL contains a protocol, server name, port
     * number, and server path, but it does not include query
     * string parameters.
     * 
     * <p>Because this method returns a <code>StringBuffer</code>,
     * not a string, you can modify the URL easily, for example,
     * to append query parameters.
     *
     * <p>This method is useful for creating redirect messages
     * and for reporting errors.
     *
     * @param req   a <code>HttpServletRequest</code> object
     *         containing the client's request
     * 
     * @return      a <code>StringBuffer</code> object containing
     *         the reconstructed URL
     */
    public static StringBuffer getRequestURL(HttpServletRequest req) {
        StringBuffer url = new StringBuffer();
        String scheme = req.getScheme();
        int port = req.getServerPort();
        String urlPath = req.getRequestURI();

        //String      servletPath = req.getServletPath ();
        //String      pathInfo = req.getPathInfo ();

        url.append(scheme); // http, https
        url.append("://");
        url.append(req.getServerName());
        if ((scheme.equals("http") && port != 80) || (scheme.equals("https") && port != 443)) {
            url.append(':');
            url.append(req.getServerPort());
        }
        //if (servletPath != null)
        //    url.append (servletPath);
        //if (pathInfo != null)
        //    url.append (pathInfo);
        url.append(urlPath);

        return url;
    }
}