Not sure if this is general, but if using apache to proxy forward onto the webrick server (as occurs on http://soks.counsell.org ), punctuation in the title sometimes stops apache from forwarding the request.
E.g. Bug: [FATAL] When renaming upload / picture pages exists, but apache doesn’t even pass the request
To be specific:
Slashes, and colons definitely work, quesion marks and square brackets definitely don’t. Others sometimes work.
Ok. The action I think I’m going to take is:- Try and get the wiki to accept question marks by grabbing it back from Webrick’s form parsing
- Have the wiki replace square brackets so that you can always access a page you have created.
In the mean time, you can create a warning for users by adding:
<script language='javascript' type='text/javascript' >
function validateTitle( proposed_title ) {
var illegalcharacters = /[\\\[\]\?<>&\^]/;
if (illegalcharacters.test( proposed_title ) == true ) {
alert( "Unfortunately the characters []?\ in titles cause problems with Soks. Please try not to use them");
// return false;
}
//return true;
}
</script>
in the <head></head> of your views/frame.rhtml file, and then add an:
onBlur="validateTitle( this.value );"to the end of the title input boxes in your views/Page_edit.rhtml and views/UploadPage_edit.rhtml
How would you modify the javascript regexp to also include an ampersand character, i.e., does it need to be escaped? ( bug: ampersand in page name creates missing links that work)—Bil Updated above—tamc2 Need to also update the message?—Bil
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This has been fixed in v-0-0-6.
