elements/src/common/url.cpp

// Copyright (c) 2015-2022 The Bitcoin Core developers
// Distributed under the MIT software license, see the accompanying
// file COPYING or http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php.

#include <common/url.h>

#include <charconv>
#include <string>
#include <string_view>
#include <system_error>

std::string urlDecode(std::string_view urlEncoded)
{
    std::string res;
    res.reserve(urlEncoded.size());

    for (size_t i = 0; i < urlEncoded.size(); ++i) {
        char c = urlEncoded[i];
        // Special handling for percent which should be followed by two hex digits
        // representing an octet values, see RFC 3986, Section 2.1 Percent-Encoding
        if (c == '%' && i + 2 < urlEncoded.size()) {
            unsigned int decoded_value{0};
            auto [p, ec] = std::from_chars(urlEncoded.data() + i + 1, urlEncoded.data() + i + 3, decoded_value, 16);

            // Only if there is no error and the pointer is set to the end of
            // the string, we can be sure both characters were valid hex
            if (ec == std::errc{} && p == urlEncoded.data() + i + 3) {
                // A null character terminates the string
                if (decoded_value == 0) {
                    return res;
                }

                res += static_cast<char>(decoded_value);
                // Next two characters are part of the percent encoding
                i += 2;
                continue;
            }
            // In case of invalid percent encoding, add the '%' and continue
        }
        res += c;
    }

    return res;
}