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Strange Urls not resolving bug RRS feed

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  • We've got a fix for this going in our next update. We got a little... "overzealous" in stripping out HTML that could break the forums pages (the ID attribute) and didn't have this case ("id=" inside a URL) covered properly.

    Thanks
    Matt
    Matt Fraser, STO Forums Software Developer
    Monday, December 8, 2008 9:56 PM
  • hans, if I hover over the "hyperlink tool" link you gave, the & isn't encoded... I'm using IE8 at the moment... IE7 did the same on my dev box. Just checked with FF3, and it looks good too.

    I have fixed the id stripping problem in the next build though.

    Matt
    Tuesday, December 9, 2008 8:12 PM

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  • We've got a fix for this going in our next update. We got a little... "overzealous" in stripping out HTML that could break the forums pages (the ID attribute) and didn't have this case ("id=" inside a URL) covered properly.

    Thanks
    Matt
    Matt Fraser, STO Forums Software Developer
    Monday, December 8, 2008 9:56 PM
  • There more problems than just the id=Xxx stripping, it is also improperly escaping the & character.  Please fix soon, this is a particularly painful bug.
    Hans Passant.
    Tuesday, December 9, 2008 9:27 AM
  • Hans, do you have a specific example of that? I want to make sure I take a look at it, as escaping problems weren't immediately obvious in the code I looked at yesterday (for the stripping stuff).

    Now that you mention it, though, I could see this... If you've got a concrete real-world example, though, it'd help.

    Thanks
    Matt
    Matt Fraser, STO Forums Software Developer
    Tuesday, December 9, 2008 7:20 PM
  • Original link: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=200B2FD9-AE1A-4A14-984D-389C36F85647&displaylang=en

    Now entered using the hyperlink tool.  Note how & got replaced by &  On second thought, looks like the tool actually does that, not the server.
    Hans Passant.
    Tuesday, December 9, 2008 7:45 PM
  • Hans,

    That is the thing I don't use the tool I just manually enable url and it always worked before this build.


    Asp.net MVP, MCPD Web C#, MCTS TFS, MCITP BI and DBA
    Tuesday, December 9, 2008 7:50 PM
  • hans, if I hover over the "hyperlink tool" link you gave, the & isn't encoded... I'm using IE8 at the moment... IE7 did the same on my dev box. Just checked with FF3, and it looks good too.

    I have fixed the id stripping problem in the next build though.

    Matt
    Tuesday, December 9, 2008 8:12 PM
  • LiquidPT said:

    hans, if I hover over the "hyperlink tool" link you gave, the & isn't encoded... I'm using IE8 at the moment... IE7 did the same on my dev box. Just checked with FF3, and it looks good too.

    I have fixed the id stripping problem in the next build though.

    Matt


    Oops. That was me... the dangers of having multiple LiveIDs... ;)
    Matt Fraser, STO Forums Software Developer
    Tuesday, December 9, 2008 8:59 PM