Bug #17057: CGI different behaviour with C vs Ruby version

• Status: Closed
• Assignee: -
• Target version: -
• Backport: 2.5: UNKNOWN, 2.6: UNKNOWN, 2.7: UNKNOWN

[ahorek (Pavel Rosický)]

irb(main):001:0> require 'cgi' # don't load a native extension
irb(main):002:0> CGI.unescapeHTML("\xFF&")
=> ArgumentError (invalid byte sequence in UTF-8)

there's a fix on upstream https://github.com/ruby/cgi/pull/2

[jeremyevans0 (Jeremy Evans)]

• Status changed from Open to Closed

I've merged the patch in the pull request after adding a test for it: https://github.com/ruby/cgi/pull/4