Dear Florian, You may have seen a long message I wrote one week ago while trying to use page names with punctuation. I hope the community may support an open discussion on this issue.
"/" is currently used to separate page name from attachment name. I am suggesting that "/<space>" be allowed within page names (which would satisfy my customer and your) BUT this will probably seen as a "kludge". A central place to define and explain the constraints about punctuation would be nice but a discussion is needed first to clarify. The position "punctuation is a nest of security holes" is not sustainable in front of users needs: chemical names are filled with punctuation but they are names so they must be allowed as a Wiki page name. Have a nice day! Christophe -----Original Message----- From: Florian Holeczek [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: mardi 19 février 2008 10:57 To: [email protected];[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Trying to create a wiki page :-) Hi all, while trying to create a wiki page containing the slash character, I've been running into some weird issues. I've been testing this on 2.6.2-svn-1 running on Tomcat/6.0.14. It's not making much sense to me, so I'll post this here awaiting some comments like "sure, that's all fine" or "ugh, that's a bug". * first try: [issue one / two] Creates a link to an attachment "issue one / two" of the current page (http://localhost:8080/jspwiki/attach/issue%20one%20/%20two). Result is a "HTTP Status 404 - Attachment 'Issue one two', version -1 does not exist." from Tomcat. Weird: * Why is this an attachment and not a regular page link? * The link appears in blue underlined letters, although it doesn't exist. * slash in the link (!?), no slash in the error message. * second try "maybe escape the slash": [issue one \/ two] Nearly the same again, "http://localhost:8080/jspwiki/attach/issue%20one%20%5C/%20two";. But this time, the result is a blank page (really blank, no HTML). * third try "maybe with double slash": [issue one // two] Same as first try, but of course the double slash is the difference in the link. What remains is the question of how to correctly link to such a wiki page and whether which characters are allowed and how to be used is documented somewhere (haven't found anything on this topic). Regards, Florian ? m
