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mediawiki don't allow "%ab" as page name, but allow "%ft" or "%a"

Bug #577822 reported by cosechy
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: mediawiki

mediawiki blocked %[a-f][a-f] only, that's confusing

if these names will lead to problems, you'd better block "%" entirely for better understanding.
and i don't know what are the problems. it doesn't appears to be any problems since all links to the name "%ft%rs" works well. if there are, those should be bugs.

if these names will not lead to problems, why should you have such a limit? remove it.

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Andreas Wenning (andreas-wenning) wrote :

Which version of ubuntu/mediawiki is this in?

Changed in mediawiki (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
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Thorsten Glaser (mirabilos) wrote :

I can confirm this for 1.15.4-1 on Debian.

I suggest you move this upstream; I think disallowing a percent sign in
the page name is reasonable myself.

Changed in mediawiki (Debian):
status: New → Confirmed
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In , Jonathan Wiltshire (jwiltshire) wrote :

Forwarded bug from Ubuntu.

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Binary package hint: mediawiki

mediawiki blocked %[a-f][a-f] only, that's confusing

if these names will lead to problems, you'd better block "%" entirely for better understanding.
and i don't know what are the problems. it doesn't appears to be any problems since all links to the name "%ft%rs" works well. if there are, those should be bugs.

if these names will not lead to problems, why should you have such a limit? remove it.

Changed in mediawiki (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Confirmed
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In , B-mzmcbride (b-mzmcbride) wrote :

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%AB&redirect=no seems to work fine.

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In , maxsem (maxsem) wrote :

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/%ab - works, though because it's not valid UTF-8 it gets converted to « according to content language's fallback encoding.

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/%ft - "Bad Request" by Apache
http://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=%ft - works, though because %ft is not a valid URL-encoded sequence, it gets eventually converted to %25ft

same thing with %a

I see no problem with MediaWiki, just Apache/rewrite rules.

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In , maxsem (maxsem) wrote :

Aforementioned bug:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mediawiki/+bug/577822

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In , Ialex-wiki (ialex-wiki) wrote :

This is the correct behavior, since we only block "%[0-9A-Fa-f]{2}" to not conflict with URL escaping sequences (includes/Title.php line 2420 in trunk).

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In , Jonathan Wiltshire (jwiltshire) wrote :

So to clarify, this behaviour is by design? Is it likely to be left like that or changed in future?

Jonathan Wiltshire (jwiltshire)
Changed in mediawiki (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
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Jonathan Wiltshire (jwiltshire) wrote :

According to upstream, this is a deliberate limitation:

"This is the correct behavior, since we only block "%[0-9A-Fa-f]{2}" to not conflict with URL escaping sequences (includes/Title.php line 2420 in trunk)."

Changed in mediawiki (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Won't Fix
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In , Bryan-tongminh (bryan-tongminh) wrote :

This behaviour is by design indeed.

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importance: Unknown → Wishlist
status: Unknown → Invalid
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