Issues #25232, #24657: Merge two CGI server fixes from 3.4 into 3.5

Lib/http/server.py

@@ -837,13 +837,15 @@ def _url_collapse_path(path):
     The utility of this function is limited to is_cgi method and helps
     preventing some security attacks.
 
-    Returns: A tuple of (head, tail) where tail is everything after the final /
-    and head is everything before it.  Head will always start with a '/' and,
-    if it contains anything else, never have a trailing '/'.
+    Returns: The reconstituted URL, which will always start with a '/'.
 
     Raises: IndexError if too many '..' occur within the path.
 
     """
+    # Query component should not be involved.
+    path, _, query = path.partition('?')
+    path = urllib.parse.unquote(path)
+
     # Similar to os.path.split(os.path.normpath(path)) but specific to URL
     # path semantics rather than local operating system semantics.
     path_parts = path.split('/')
@@ -864,6 +866,9 @@ def _url_collapse_path(path):
     else:
         tail_part = ''
 
+    if query:
+        tail_part = '?'.join((tail_part, query))
+
     splitpath = ('/' + '/'.join(head_parts), tail_part)
     collapsed_path = "/".join(splitpath)
 
@@ -947,7 +952,7 @@ class CGIHTTPRequestHandler(SimpleHTTPRequestHandler):
         (and the next character is a '/' or the end of the string).
 
         """
-        collapsed_path = _url_collapse_path(urllib.parse.unquote(self.path))
+        collapsed_path = _url_collapse_path(self.path)
         dir_sep = collapsed_path.find('/', 1)
         head, tail = collapsed_path[:dir_sep], collapsed_path[dir_sep+1:]
         if head in self.cgi_directories:
@@ -984,11 +989,7 @@ class CGIHTTPRequestHandler(SimpleHTTPRequestHandler):
                 break
 
         # find an explicit query string, if present.
-        i = rest.rfind('?')
-        if i >= 0:
-            rest, query = rest[:i], rest[i+1:]
-        else:
-            query = ''
+        rest, _, query = rest.partition('?')
 
         # dissect the part after the directory name into a script name &
         # a possible additional path, to be stored in PATH_INFO.