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Opened 19 years ago

Closed 17 years ago

#5663 closed defect (bug) (duplicate)

URL sanitization is too restrictive

Reported by: nbachiyski Owned by: ryan
Priority: low Milestone:
Component: Permalinks Version:
Severity: minor Keywords: needs-patch early
Cc: Focuses:

Description

Url sanitization is too strict, it allows only character from the following class: [^a-z0-9-~+_.?#=!&;,/:%@]

A URL can contain every possible character, so we shouldn't strip them, but just escape accordingly.

Change History (3)

#1 @Denis-de-Bernardy
17 years ago

  • Keywords needs-patch early added

See also: #9591

#2 @Denis-de-Bernardy
17 years ago

  • Component General → Permalinks
  • Owner changed from anonymous to ryan
  • Priority normal → low
  • Severity normal → minor

#3 @ryan
17 years ago

  • Milestone 2.9
  • Resolution → duplicate
  • Status new → closed

We've opened to many more characters since this ticket was opened. Closing as a dupe.

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