[Building Sakai] new web content tool error

Wed Jul 30 09:51:17 PDT 2014

It looks like the actual request that gets sent (from chrome anyway) is this:
q=sakai%20and%20apereo
I might be misreading what chrome is doing but that's what it looks
like from the debug.
-AZ

On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 12:32 PM, Cris J Holdorph <holdorph at unicon.net> wrote:
> A "url with spaces" can be reproduced (have not tried using it with the
> web content tool) by typing into your address bar of your browser.
>
> For example if I search for "sakai and apereo" (without quotes) into a
> google search, I get the following URL:
>
> https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=sakai+and+apereo
>
> However, I can edit that and replace the value after the 'q' with
>
> https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=sakai and apereo
>
> and I get the same resulting page.
>
> ---- Cris J H
>
> On 07/30/2014 09:22 AM, Neal Caidin wrote:
>> Hi Adam,
>>
>> Do you have any specific examples of URLs that have spaces?  We would
>> need this in order to see if we can reproduce the problem. If we cannot
>> reproduce it, no way to fix it.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Neal
>>
>>
>>> Adam Marshall <mailto:adam.marshall at it.ox.ac.uk>
>>> July 30, 2014 at 12:19 PM
>>>
>>> No specific system but I’m sure our users will find one! Either that
>>> or they’ll type in a URL which contains spaces.
>>>
>>> adam
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>> ** Note change of email address to adam.marshall at it.ox.ac.uk
>>> <mailto:adam.marshall at it.ox.ac.uk> **
>>>
>>> Dr A C Marshall, WebLearn Service Manager, University of Oxford.
>>>
>>> IT Services, 13 Banbury Rd, Oxford. OX2 6NN.
>>>
>>> *From:*Sam Ottenhoff [mailto:ottenhoff at longsight.com]
>>> *Sent:* 30 July 2014 17:12
>>> *To:* Adam Marshall
>>> *Cc:* sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org
>>> *Subject:* Re: [Building Sakai] new web content tool error
>>>
>>> What system is providing your users with invalid characters?  How do
>>> users arrive at links with spaces?
>>>
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>>> Sam Ottenhoff <mailto:ottenhoff at longsight.com>
>>> July 30, 2014 at 12:11 PM
>>>
>>>
>>>     Our users will go nuts (technical term) if they have to manually
>>>     translate spaces to %20 in order to save a Web Content link.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> What system is providing your users with invalid characters?  How do
>>> users arrive at links with spaces?
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>>> Adam Marshall <mailto:adam.marshall at it.ox.ac.uk>
>>> July 30, 2014 at 11:55 AM
>>>
>>> I don’t dispute that URL should not contains spaces but the old Web
>>> Content tool did accept them. I would imagine a good solution would be
>>> to accept URLs with spaces but translate the space to %20 before
>>> storing in the DB. The same goes for other disallowed characters.
>>>
>>> Our users will go nuts (technical term) if they have to manually
>>> translate spaces to %20 in order to save a Web Content link.
>>>
>>> adam
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>> ** Note change of email address to adam.marshall at it.ox.ac.uk
>>> <mailto:adam.marshall at it.ox.ac.uk> **
>>>
>>> Dr A C Marshall, WebLearn Service Manager, University of Oxford.
>>>
>>> IT Services, 13 Banbury Rd, Oxford. OX2 6NN.
>>>
>>> *From:*Sam Ottenhoff [mailto:ottenhoff at longsight.com]
>>> *Sent:* 30 July 2014 16:01
>>> *To:* Adam Marshall
>>> *Cc:* sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org
>>> *Subject:* Re: [Building Sakai] new web content tool error
>>>
>>> Isn't a space invalid in a URL? http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1738.txt
>>>
>>>    Characters can be unsafe for a number of reasons.  The space
>>>    character is unsafe because significant spaces may disappear and
>>>    insignificant spaces may be introduced when URLs are transcribed or
>>>    typeset or subjected to the treatment of word-processing programs.
>>>    The characters "<" and ">" are unsafe because they are used as the
>>>    delimiters around URLs in free text; the quote mark (""") is used to
>>>    delimit URLs in some systems.  The character "#" is unsafe and should
>>>    always be encoded because it is used in World Wide Web and in other
>>>    systems to delimit a URL from a fragment/anchor identifier that might
>>>    follow it.  The character "%" is unsafe because it is used for
>>>    encodings of other characters.  Other characters are unsafe because
>>>    gateways and other transport agents are known to sometimes modify
>>>    such characters. These characters are "{", "}", "|", "\", "^", "~",
>>>    "[", "]", and "`".
>>>    All unsafe characters must always be encoded within a URL.
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 10:52 AM, Adam Marshall
>>> <adam.marshall at it.ox.ac.uk <mailto:adam.marshall at it.ox.ac.uk>> wrote:
>>>
>>> You can't have a target URL that contains a space in the new Web
>>> Content tool.
>>>
>>> Is that deliberate? It's breaking loads of our pages. A blocker.
>>>
>>> adam
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>> ** Note change of email address to adam.marshall at it.ox.ac.uk
>>> <mailto:adam.marshall at it.ox.ac.uk> **
>>>
>>> Dr A C Marshall, WebLearn Service Manager, University of Oxford.
>>> IT Services, 13 Banbury Rd, Oxford. OX2 6NN.
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>> Sam Ottenhoff <mailto:ottenhoff at longsight.com>
>>> July 30, 2014 at 11:00 AM
>>> Isn't a space invalid in a URL? http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1738.txt
>>>
>>>
>>> Characters can be unsafe for a number of reasons. The space
>>> character is unsafe because significant spaces may disappear and
>>> insignificant spaces may be introduced when URLs are transcribed or
>>> typeset or subjected to the treatment of word-processing programs.
>>> The characters "<" and ">" are unsafe because they are used as the
>>> delimiters around URLs in free text; the quote mark (""") is used to
>>> delimit URLs in some systems. The character "#" is unsafe and should
>>> always be encoded because it is used in World Wide Web and in other
>>> systems to delimit a URL from a fragment/anchor identifier that might
>>> follow it. The character "%" is unsafe because it is used for
>>> encodings of other characters. Other characters are unsafe because
>>> gateways and other transport agents are known to sometimes modify
>>> such characters. These characters are "{", "}", "|", "\", "^", "~",
>>> "[", "]", and "`".
>>>
>>> All unsafe characters must always be encoded within a URL.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> sakai-dev mailing list
>>> sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org
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>>> Adam Marshall <mailto:adam.marshall at it.ox.ac.uk>
>>> July 30, 2014 at 10:52 AM
>>> You can't have a target URL that contains a space in the new Web
>>> Content tool.
>>>
>>> Is that deliberate? It's breaking loads of our pages. A blocker.
>>>
>>> adam
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>> ** Note change of email address to adam.marshall at it.ox.ac.uk **
>>>
>>> Dr A C Marshall, WebLearn Service Manager, University of Oxford.
>>> IT Services, 13 Banbury Rd, Oxford. OX2 6NN.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
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>>> sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org
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>>>
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>>
>> --
>> Neal Caidin
>> Sakai Community Coordinator
>> Apereo Foundation
>> neal.caidin at apereo.org
>> Skype me! (but let me know in advance for the first interaction) - nealkdin
>>
>>
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