Re: [Phpwiki-talk] chars in URLs like ? / & : % + # $ @ etc.

[Reini U. <ru...@x-...>]

Micki Kaufman schrieb:
> A request for a known issue. - chars in URLs like ? / & : % + # $ @ etc.
> 
> Can we investigate allowing characters like the above characters that, 
> as most of us know, can often be used to delimit parameters, etc.
> 
> Currently, in at least 1.3.4-1.3.10, a character like ? or & will break 
> the page, immediately at the end of the link.

Yes, this is a known issue, esp. with browsers sending them as UTF-8, 
which was fixed in current CVS only.
Now we check for utf-8, and convert it,
trim the pagename for whitespace and
reject illegal usernames.

Everything else is okay for phpwiki.
I'm not sure if all database backends accept all chars,
but we transport them urlencoded.

"." dotted pagenames and pagenames with [] are also problematic.
the dot was fixes in current CVS. the [] only for remove, but not for 
all WikiAdminSelect plugins.
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Reini Urban
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