Bug# 278
Subsystem:
perlmonks.org
Priority:
E - who cares?
Severity:
06 - UI issue
Summary:
Certain submissions in the chatterbox truncated (lack of fault tolerance)
Description:
Arguably this is a Fact of Life, but it might
be fixable anyway.
Submissions including a literal < character not followed
by a literal > will "break" the HTML chatterbox: the
part of the submission following the < will be
swallowed, along with the <BR> tag that should follow
it.
Example submission:
bad submission ends here< instead of here
Result:
<OtherUser> random joke
<ChemBoy> bad submission ends
here<OtherUser> next message,
which is kind of messed up
<ChemBoy> Oops!
Apparently, something along the way is treating
< instead of here <br>
as a single tag, which some subsequent step is removing
as "not an allowed tag." This gives the submitter (i.e.
me) exactly what he deserves for not escaping his entities,
but subjects everybody else to some needless confusion.
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Assigned to:
nobody
Status:
New
Disposition:
edit this bug report
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