static middleware: path ist unescaped twice for file names, leading to not downloadable content

[Georg Müller]

Issue Description

Given a file on disk with a percent sign in its name, it is not possible to download it using echo's static middleware.

Given some file names:

• 100%.txt
• foo%20bar.txt (this is really the name on disk)

It is not possible to download these files using the static middleware.

Checklist

• Dependencies installed
• No typos
• Searched existing issues and docs

Expected behaviour

The standard way to download them would be using the folowing paths:

• 100%.txt -> GET /100%25.txt
• foo%20bar.txt -> GET /foo%2520bar.txt

Actual behaviour

• 100%.txt -> GET /100%25.txt
  • echo error message: invalid URL escape "%.p (because of the double unescape and .p is no valid hex)
• foo%20bar.txt -> GET /foo%2520bar.txt
  • echo error message: path does not exist (because file foo bar.txt does not exist, only foo%20bar.txt)

Background is that url.Path in http.Request is already escaped (as the documentation for url.Path suggests), but echo is unescaping it again.

I tried to generate a fix. For the non-embedded case this is solved by simply removing the explicit url.PathUnescape call in static.go (see georgmu@852dede which also contains some test cases). I haven't created a merge request yet, as the embedding using groups or path patterns is a bit more complicated (I haven't fully understand the case for the disablePathUnescaping toggle).

Steps to reproduce / Working code to debug

See test cases in georgmu@852dede

Version/commit

master ( commit fa70db8 )