Package: libwww-mediawiki-client-perl
Version: 0.31-1.1
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
The program chokes when asked to get a wiki page that includes an
ampersand (&) in its name.
$ mvs update 'A&W Restaurant.wiki'
Doing update A&W Restaurant.wiki with host: localhost and lang: en
Can't call method "isa" without a package or object reference at /usr/bin/mvs
line 96.
$
with the attached patch to pagename_to_url, the operation succeeds.
---cut---
--- Client.pm.orig 2006-07-01 09:55:08.000000000 -0600
+++ Client.pm 2011-03-16 15:31:24.000000000 -0600
@@ -1318,6 +1318,10 @@
) if $name =~ /.wiki$/;
my $char = $self->space_substitute;
$name =~ s/ /$char/;
+
+ # ampersand is escaped in the URL
+ $name =~ s/&/%26/;
+
my $lang = $self->language_code;
my $host = $self->host;
$host =~ s/__LANG__/$lang/g;
---cut---
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.8
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-14-generic (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages libwww-mediawiki-client-perl depends on:
ii libexception-class-perl 1.24-1 a module that allows you to declar
ii libvcs-lite-perl 0.08-2 Minimal version control system
ii libwww-perl 5.813-1+lenny2 WWW client/server library for Perl
ii libxml-libxml-perl 1.66-1+b1 Perl module for using the GNOME li
ii perl 5.10.0-19lenny3 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
libwww-mediawiki-client-perl recommends no packages.
libwww-mediawiki-client-perl suggests no packages.
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