ADFA-5241: Declare utf-8 on text responses from the documentation database - #1725
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…abase WebServer wrote the stored MIME type into Content-Type verbatim, and no ContentTypes.value in documentation.db carries a charset, so every text response left its encoding unstated. A client that does not assume UTF-8 falls back to a legacy single-byte encoding: of 500 sampled text rows, 328 (66%) contain non-ASCII bytes with no BOM, and those render as mojibake. Observed on device while confirming ADFA-5239 -- a/android/R.id.html shows "   ↳android.R.id" where the page says "↳android.R.id". Two things made this invisible until now. Those pages were being served as text/plain (ADFA-5239), so they rendered as source rather than as documents, and Android's WebSettings.defaultTextEncodingName defaults to UTF-8, which likely spares the in-app viewer -- nothing in the app sets that property, so it relies on the default. Neither is a reason to leave the header unstated: correctness by client default is per-client behaviour, not something this server declares, and the same file already sends "; charset=utf-8" on its hardcoded responses (lines 1176, 1225, 1247, 1310). Only database-sourced content was missing it. The predicate lives in common/ContentTypeHeaders rather than in WebServer, because ADFA-5176's in-process transport already answers this question on its own -- DocumentationRequestInterceptor.mimeAndCharset defaults text/* to utf-8 -- and the two transports disagreeing about what a response says is worse than either answer. That branch should adopt this on its rebase. What gets a charset, and why not more: every text subtype, including the database's malformed bare "text" (which 726 TooltipButtons reach via x.html) and "text/text"; XML-based types, since SVG usually omits its own declaration and a transport charset takes precedence anyway. Not application/json -- RFC 8259 defines no charset parameter for it and fixes the encoding as UTF-8, so declaring one says nothing; there is a test asserting that, so nobody "fixes" it later. An already-declared charset is never doubled. Deliberately not fixed in the database. Putting the parameter in ContentTypes.value would work for both readers, but that column doubles as a lookup key matched exactly by ExtensionToContentTypeResolver (the plugin installer would skip every HTML asset), by docdb-studio's anchor extraction, and by three OfflineDocumentationTools scripts. Two of those fail silently. The analysis is on ADFA-5241. Tests: 7 for the helper -- text, the malformed types, XML, the binary set, the JSON exclusion, no doubling, and casing/parameter tolerance -- plus one that asserts the header a real client receives, since the helper being right does not prove the response is. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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In `@common/src/main/java/com/itsaky/androidide/utils/ContentTypeHeaders.kt`:
- Around line 3-19: Update the KDoc example to use only ASCII characters,
replacing the non-ASCII symbols in the mojibake demonstration with suitable
ASCII escape notation while preserving the example’s meaning.
- Around line 32-45: The charsetFor function must avoid false matches for both
media types and charset parameters. Restrict the text check to exactly “text” or
values beginning with “text/”, and parse semicolon-delimited parameters so only
a parameter whose name is charset suppresses the UTF-8 result; quoted values or
unrelated parameter names containing “charset=” must not. Add regression tests
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…undaries Both from CodeRabbit on PR #1725. `type.startsWith("text")` classified `textual/example` as a text response. The comment beside it already said the intent was "every text subtype, plus the bare text oddity" -- the code just did not say that. Now `type == "text" || type.startsWith("text/")`. `mimeType.contains("charset=")` found the substring inside *another* parameter's value, so `text/html; note="charset=utf-8"` looked like it already declared an encoding and got none added. Parameters are now split on `;` and matched by name, which also keeps `text/html;boundary=x` working. Neither case exists in documentation.db today -- no ContentTypes.value carries a parameter at all -- so this is about the helper being honest rather than a live defect. Both have regression tests. Also dropped the non-ASCII from the KDoc, which quoted the mojibake it was describing. The ASCII policy exempts a glyph doing real visual work, and I had read the example as qualifying; naming the code point instead reads the same, which means it does not qualify. The file is now pure ASCII. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…nts as text From the code review on PR #1725. Four correctness findings, all real. Splitting on ';' still finds "charset=" inside a quoted value that contains a semicolon -- text/html; note="x; charset=utf-8" -- so the helper concluded a charset was already declared and sent none at all: the exact failure its own KDoc claimed the split prevented. And a parameter with no value (; charset) or an empty one (; charset=) was read as a declaration, with the same result. Parameters are now parsed with quote awareness, and only a charset parameter with a non-empty value counts as declared. The textual application/* list omitted application/javascript, which does have rows and is what ExtensionToContentTypeResolver maps ".mjs" to, so real files served undeclared -- the bug this class exists to prevent. Added it along with ecmascript and x-sh, and said in the comment that the list is a list precisely because these types share no marker, so anything textual arriving later has to be added rather than assumed covered. The header value is now built before the status line goes out. The writer autoflushes, so a throw after the first println made sendError append a second status line to a response that already claimed 200, which a client parses as a malformed header rather than as an error. dbMimeType is a platform type from Cursor.getString, so a NULL ContentTypes.value is a real way to reach that throw. typeAndCharset is exposed because ADFA-5176's interceptor needs the type and the charset apart for WebResourceResponse and was re-implementing the parse to get them -- with the naive substring match this file warns against. The class was created so both transports answer alike; keeping the parse private meant they agreed on the default and disagreed on reading what was already there. The "two thirds" statistic is replaced with a full census of the database it was measured on: 17,903 of 29,139 text rows, 61.4%. The review measured 22.5% against the bundled asset, which is an older export -- both numbers are right for their own database, so the KDoc now names which one and says the rate is per-generation. Four regression tests for the parsing cases, one for the textual types, one for typeAndCharset. The header assertion now prints the whole response when no Content-Type is found instead of throwing NoSuchElementException, and no longer declares a compression-dictionary version it does not use. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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In `@common/src/main/java/com/itsaky/androidide/utils/ContentTypeHeaders.kt`:
- Around line 88-92: Update declaredCharset to select the first charset
parameter whose value is non-empty, allowing later valid declarations after
empty ones to be used. Add a regression unit test covering an empty charset
followed by charset=iso-8859-1 and verify the generated header does not append a
conflicting UTF-8 charset.
- Around line 109-120: Update the MIME parameter parser around the
quote-handling loop in ContentTypeHeaders to track escaped characters while
inside quoted values, so an escaped quote does not toggle quoted state and
subsequent semicolons remain part of the value. Add a regression unit test
covering an escaped quote followed by a semicolon and verifying embedded charset
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…med inputs Both from the re-review on #1725. An escaped quote no longer ends a quoted parameter value. RFC 9110's quoted-pair means \" does not close the string, but the parser toggled on every quote, so text/html; note="a\"; charset=iso-8859-1 parsed as two parameters and the charset inside note read as a declaration -- the same false match this class exists to prevent. An empty charset parameter is now left alone rather than contradicted. headerValue used to append a second charset, producing text/html; charset=; charset=utf-8. Recipients keep an empty valued parameter and ignore a repeated name, so that append claims a fix it does not make. A parameter with no = at all is still appended to, because that one really is dropped during parsing, so the appended charset takes effect. typeAndCharset keeps substituting the default either way -- it hands the charset back as its own value, where nothing can conflict with it. Both tests were confirmed to fail against the previous parser. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Its KDoc said null meant the type already carried a charset, without saying that an empty one counts -- which is the interesting case, and the reason typeAndCharset answers differently for the same input. Both now state the asymmetry and why it exists. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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…ored Review of this PR found that appending a charset to the stored string leaves the header no better formed than the database happened to be -- and that on the row this change was written for, it does nothing at all. The database stores a bare "text" (one row, x.html) and a "text/text" (ten licence files). Neither is a media type -- type "/" subtype is required -- and a client that cannot parse the type discards the charset with it, so those rows went on being sniffed exactly as before. Both normalize to text/plain now. A stored value carrying a control character was written into the response verbatim by println(). ContentTypes.value comes from a database that a debug build swaps in from shared storage, so a planted value containing CR/LF would split one response into two. Such a value is refused rather than repaired: application/octet-stream renders nothing and injects nothing. charsetFor and typeAndCharset disagreed for "text/html; charset=" -- one appended nothing, the other substituted utf-8 -- so the two documentation transports declared different encodings for one stored value, which is the divergence this class exists to remove. Both take the same decision from the same call now, because headerValue rebuilds the header from the parsed parts: one normalized type, the other parameters as they were, exactly one charset. Rebuilding also makes "; charset" and "; charset=" replaceable rather than contradictable, so the malformed forms are no longer emitted at all. With rebuilding, the first *usable* charset became the right one to read rather than simply the first. While this appended, the first mattered, because that is the one a first-wins recipient keeps; now that exactly one is emitted, serving "charset=; charset=iso-8859-1" as utf-8 would garble a page that says plainly what it is. My own test caught that. Also from the review: handleClient's error path called sendError without outputStarted, so a failure while writing the body -- a dropped connection being the common one -- appended a second status line to a response that had already claimed 200. It reports whether the response had started now, as the other call sites in this file already do. The tests move to Truth, which ARCHITECTURE.md requires and this file was not using, and the comment volume comes down: the asymmetry was explained in four separate KDocs and no longer exists to explain. 341 tests pass across :common and :app. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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- Around line 204-208: Validate the complete mimeType for control characters
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… the type The sanitising check covered only the segment before the first ';', so text/html; note=x<CR><LF>X-Injected: y passed it -- and the parameter loop then wrote that CR/LF into the response header. Same response splitting the check was added to stop, one segment further along, in the fix for it. The whole stored value is checked now, and a refused value emits nothing but application/octet-stream: its parameters are exactly where the control characters would have been. Test: 'a control character in a parameter is refused too', which fails against the type-only check. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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66-69: 🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winReturn a null charset for refused MIME values.
safeTypereturnsOCTET_STREAMfor control characters, buttypeAndCharsetstill readsdeclaredCharsetfrom the original value. Fortext/html; charset=utf-8\r\nX-Injected: y,charsetis non-null, so this guard is skipped andheaderValuere-emits the control characters into the response header.Return
OCTET_STREAM to nullbefore parsing a value containing a control character, or carry an explicit refusal flag. Add a regression test with a control character inside a charset-bearing value.Proposed fix
internal fun typeAndCharset(mimeType: String): Pair<String, String?> { + if (mimeType.any { it.isISOControl() }) { + return OCTET_STREAM to null + } val type = safeType(mimeType) return type to (declaredCharset(mimeType) ?: defaultCharsetFor(type)) }Also applies to: 209-213
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In `@common/src/main/java/com/itsaky/androidide/utils/ContentTypeHeaders.kt`:
- Around line 66-69: Update typeAndCharset to detect MIME values containing
control characters before calling declaredCharset, returning OCTET_STREAM with a
null charset for refused values; preserve normal type and charset resolution for
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…ft open safeType refused a value carrying a control character, but the refusal was read back out of its return value -- OCTET_STREAM with no charset -- and a control character inside the charset parameter defeated that: declaredCharset re-parsed the original string, found a charset, so "refused" was never true, and headerValue appended the CRLF-bearing value verbatim. WebServer writes the result with println, so text/html; charset=x<CR><LF><CR><LF><script>alert(1)</script> split the reply into two HTTP responses with an attacker-chosen body -- the one thing this class exists to prevent. The two existing "refused, not repaired" tests put their control character in the type segment or a note= parameter, so neither could see it. Refusal is asked now, not inferred: one isUntrustworthy() consulted by both typeAndCharset and headerValue. That also stops a legitimately stored application/octet-stream; name=file.bin from being mistaken for a refusal and losing its parameters. The charset is the one value that skipped quoteIfNeeded, so a stored charset="utf-8; x=y" -- whose quotes parameters() strips -- came back out as a charset plus a smuggled second parameter. It goes through the same quoting as every other parameter value now. Four tests, three of which fail against the previous logic. 84 common tests pass. Found in review of PR #1725.
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WebServerwrote the stored MIME type intoContent-Typeverbatim, and noContentTypes.valueindocumentation.dbcarries a charset — so every text response left its encoding unstated. A client that doesn't assume UTF-8 falls back to a legacy single-byte encoding.Of 500 sampled
text/*rows, 328 (66%) contain non-ASCII bytes with no BOM. Observed on device while confirming ADFA-5239:a/android/R.id.htmlrenders   ↳android.R.idwhere the page says↳android.R.id. Screenshot is on ADFA-5239.Why this stayed hidden
Two things masked it. Those pages were being served as
text/plain(ADFA-5239), so they rendered as source rather than as documents — mojibake in escaped markup looks like nothing at all. And Android'sWebSettings.defaultTextEncodingNamedefaults to UTF-8, which likely spares the in-app viewer; nothing in the app sets that property, so it relies on the default.Neither is a reason to leave the header unstated:
WebServer.kt:1176,:1225,:1247,:1310all send; charset=utf-8). Only database-sourced content was missing it.text/*toutf-8inDocumentationRequestInterceptor.mimeAndCharset.Where the decision lives
common/ContentTypeHeaders, notWebServer— because of that last point. Two transports giving different answers about what a response says is worse than either answer, so the predicate is in one place for ADFA-5176 to adopt on its rebase.What gets a charset: every text subtype, including the database's malformed bare
text(which 726TooltipButtonsreach viax.html) andtext/text; XML-based types, since SVG usually omits its own declaration and a transport charset takes precedence anyway. Notapplication/json— RFC 8259 defines no charset parameter for it and fixes the encoding as UTF-8, so declaring one says nothing. There's a test asserting that, so nobody "fixes" it later. An already-declared charset is never doubled.Deliberately not fixed in the database
Putting the parameter in
ContentTypes.valuewould work for both readers — but that column doubles as a lookup key matched exactly byExtensionToContentTypeResolver(the plugin installer would skip every HTML asset), bydocdb-studio's anchor extraction, and by threeOfflineDocumentationToolsscripts. Two of those fail silently. Full analysis on ADFA-5241.Tests
7 for the helper — text types, the two malformed ones, XML, the whole binary set, the JSON exclusion, no doubling, and casing/parameter tolerance — plus one that opens a socket against a running server and asserts the literal
Content-Type:line for a text row and a binary row. The helper being right doesn't prove the response is.Verified on hardware
Built, installed on an SM-N986U and checked against the live server. Headers, same session:
Text and XML-based types declare the encoding, binary types are untouched, and the malformed bare
textgets one too — which is the intent.Rendering confirmed as well:
a/android/R.id.htmlnow shows↳ android.R.idwhere it showed   ↳android.R.idan hour earlier, and the signature block sets in proper monospace, since the broken bytes had been disrupting the page's inlined CSS and not only its text. Before/after screenshots are on ADFA-5241 and ADFA-5239.No UI change, so no font-scale check applies.
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