special characters in the patron barcode are replaced with URL Encoding codes in the Place hold screen.

Bug #1926797 reported by Dale Rigney
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Bug Description

Tested on Evergreen 3.6

If a patrons barcode has a special character the Place hold screen will sometimes replace the special character with URL Encoding codes. I only tested with barcodes that have a + or a $ in them so the summary might not be specific enough. Here are the steps to reproduce the issue.

1) Create a patron with a barcode that contains either a + or $ sign.
2) Bring that patron up ion the web client.
3) Click on the Holds tab
4) Click on the Place Hold button
5) Search for an title to place a hold.
6) Click on the Place Hold button for the title.
7) Look at the barcode of the patron on the Place Hold screen. The $ sign turns into %24 and the + turned into %2B
8) Hitting the Place Hold(s) button will result in an Barcode not found error messge.

Example patron barcode = 'eolitest$3' is turned into Barcode 'eolitest%243'. Barcode 'eolitest2+' is turned into 'eolitest2%2B'

You need to fix the barcode in the Place hold screen before the hold will be allowed toFixing the barcode in the screen will allow the hold to go through.

I did not test any other special character.

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Dan Briem (dbriem) wrote :

This appears to be related to bug 1892435. The Angular redirect will escape the already escaped query string on certain servers.

For example, eolitest2+ is escaped to eolitest2%2B before the request, then the redirect escapes it again to eolitest2%252B, which is decoded into eolitest2%2B.

Like bug 1892435, I could only replicate this on an older version of Apache, in my case Ubuntu 16.04.7, Apache 2.4.18, EG 3.6.3.

Dan Briem (dbriem)
Changed in evergreen:
status: New → Confirmed
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