From 36e0d8d46e4099a55e75f521a3ed9534c34bd051 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Shish <shish@shishnet.org>
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2024 20:02:44 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] [core] guess at query encoding, hackily fixes #1026

---
 core/urls.php | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/core/urls.php b/core/urls.php
index 747eaae49..980bced8e 100644
--- a/core/urls.php
+++ b/core/urls.php
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ function make_link(?string $page = null, ?string $query = null, ?string $fragmen
  *   tell the difference between q=foo/bar and q=foo%2Fbar
  * - REQUEST_URI contains the exact URI that was given to us, so we
  *   can parse it for ourselves
- * - <input type="hidden" name="q" value="post/list"> generates
+ * - <input type='hidden' name='q' value='post/list'> generates
  *   q=post%2Flist
  *
  * This function should always return strings with no leading slashes
@@ -104,6 +104,11 @@ function _get_query(?string $uri = null): string
                 $q = $qps[1];
             }
         }
+        // if we have no slashes, but do have an encoded
+        // slash, then we _probably_ encoded too much
+        if(!str_contains($q, "/") && str_contains($q, "%2F")) {
+            $q = rawurldecode($q);
+        }
     }
 
     // if we're looking at http://site.com/$INSTALL_DIR/$PAGE,