Re: [SMW-devel] "Pretty URL" issues with SeachByProperty

[Asheesh L. <as...@cr...>]

On Wed, 22 Oct 2008, Asheesh Laroia wrote:

> The same page appears at 
> http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Worm_Consortium_%E2%80%93_LumbriBASE and 
> http://learn.creativecommons.org/community/Worm_Consortium_%E2%80%93_LumbriBASE 
> .  Both wikis use the same rewrite rules (listed at the end of this mail)..
>
> If you click from wiki-dot on "post-secondary education", you follow a link 
> to 
> http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Special:SearchByProperty/Tag/post-secondary_education 
> .  Going there, one is surprised to see 'A list of all pages that have 
> property “Tag” with value “post%secondary education', which needless to say 
> is an empty list.  (The same can be seen on the learn-dot link.)
>
> The behavior is different (but also wrong) with the wiki running newer 
> software.  The link goes to 
> http://learn.creativecommons.org/community/Special:SearchByProperty/Tag/post-secondary%2Beducation
> (%2B is +).  MediaWiki redirects me to 
> http://learn.creativecommons.org/community/Special:SearchByProperty/Tag/post-secondary_education 
> , and I am told the query was "post%secondary_education" in the resulting 
> rendered page.  Again, there are no results.

I can reproduce this percent encoding bug on the SMW sandbox by simply 
going to 
http://sandbox.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:SearchByProperty/Your-Mom/Wears-Polyester 
.

Instead of your hyphen mom, we see your percent mom.  Links like this can 
be generated by wiki markup like this:
[[Special:SearchByProperty/Your-Mom/Wears Polyester]]
which I have put on my user page 
<http://sandbox.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Paulproteus>.  Am I using 
Special:SearchByProperty wrong, or is this a bug?

(From the SMW-user list discussion where I began this thread, I believe it 
is a bug, and that the behavior has changed across releases.  I wrote 
other attempts at encoding this query on my user page which result (as 
they should) in red links to error pages.)

Of note, 
http://sandbox.semantic-mediawiki.org/index.php?title=Special:SearchByProperty/Your-Mom/Wears_Polyester 
gives the same problem; in principle, this is not really a mod_rewrite 
issue.

-- Asheesh.

-- 
INSIDE, I have the same personality disorder as LUCY RICARDO!!