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From 6ab885e4cabe28f74050b7e996868e4d8387e94d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ed Tanous <ed@tanous.net>
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2020 15:04:58 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] url_view throws if a parse error is found

This causes a strange condition where the webserver crashes on bad urls.

Tested:
Loaded on RPI.  Verified that this particular crash no longer breaks the
fuzzer.

Signed-off-by: Ed Tanous <ed@tanous.net>
Signed-off-by: James Feist <james.feist@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: AppaRao Puli <apparao.puli@linux.intel.com>
Change-Id: I459421e27c8d07c2bc45099b5942f7c7c929610d
---
 http/http_connection.h | 21 ++++++++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/http/http_connection.h b/http/http_connection.h
index 8dba3d6..8db8108 100644
--- a/http/http_connection.h
+++ b/http/http_connection.h
@@ -728,9 +728,24 @@ class Connection :
                     return;
                 }
 
-                req->urlView = boost::urls::url_view(req->target());
-                req->url = req->urlView.encoded_path();
-
+                // Note, despite the bmcweb coding policy on use of exceptions
+                // for error handling, this one particular use of exceptions is
+                // deemed acceptible, as it solved a significant error handling
+                // problem that resulted in seg faults, the exact thing that the
+                // exceptions rule is trying to avoid. If at some point,
+                // boost::urls makes the parser object public (or we port it
+                // into bmcweb locally) this will be replaced with
+                // parser::parse, which returns a status code
+
+                try
+                {
+                    req->urlView = boost::urls::url_view(req->target());
+                    req->url = req->urlView.encoded_path();
+                }
+                catch (std::exception& p)
+                {
+                    BMCWEB_LOG_ERROR << p.what();
+                }
                 crow::authorization::authenticate(*req, res, session);
 
                 bool loggedIn = req && req->session;
-- 
2.7.4