[Bug 31918] ISO 8859-1 URL encoding for JavaScript
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31918
Krinkle krinklem...@gmail.com changed:
What|Removed |Added
CC||krinklem...@gmail.com
--- Comment #9 from Krinkle krinklem...@gmail.com 2012-07-22 07:15:17 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #8)
I see three possibilities to solve the problem
* Implement in JavaScript the same decoder like in PHP. So
mw.util.getParamValue() tries to decode as ISO 8859-1 when UTF-8 decoding
fails.
There are more encodings, and this can depends on the configuration of the
server as well.
* MediaWiki answers with 301 Moved Permanently and Location in UTF-8 encoding.
So the URL gets normalized.
Not desired or possible in certain cases.
* The parameters gets normalized in PHP and transfered to JavaScript via wiki
global variable. mw.util.getParamValue() use the normalized parameters from
this variable instead of the URL.
Unnecessary bloat.
And all these 3 solutions share the same problem: They encourage usage of query
created and targeted for one script – outside that script (namely a gadget or
something). Which is bad, because these are not documented or considered
stable. Query parameter names and meaning may change at any time, and must only
be used for communication between the script's output and input to itself.
Solution 4.: Relevant values are exported to javascript in a canonical way by
the script. For example MediaWiki itself always exports wgTitle,
wgNamespaceNumber etc. And special pages export wgCanonicalSpecialPageName.
Other scripts can export their own information (e.g. SpecialContributions could
export `spContributionsTarget: ..` or `spContributions: { target: .. }`.).
--
Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email
--- You are receiving this mail because: ---
You are the assignee for the bug.
You are on the CC list for the bug.
___
Wikibugs-l mailing list
Wikibugs-l@lists.wikimedia.org
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
[Bug 31918] ISO 8859-1 URL encoding for JavaScript
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31918 --- Comment #8 from Fomafix foma...@googlemail.com 2012-07-01 12:43:19 UTC --- I see three possibilities to solve the problem * Implement in JavaScript the same decoder like in PHP. So mw.util.getParamValue() tries to decode as ISO 8859-1 when UTF-8 decoding fails. * MediaWiki answers with 301 Moved Permanently and Location in UTF-8 encoding. So the URL gets normalized. * The parameters gets normalized in PHP and transfered to JavaScript via wiki global variable. mw.util.getParamValue() use the normalized parameters from this variable instead of the URL. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email --- You are receiving this mail because: --- You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. ___ Wikibugs-l mailing list Wikibugs-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
[Bug 31918] ISO 8859-1 URL encoding for JavaScript
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31918 mybugs.m...@gmail.com changed: What|Removed |Added CC||mybugs.m...@gmail.com --- Comment #6 from mybugs.m...@gmail.com 2012-07-01 01:32:59 UTC --- (In reply to comment #4) Yes, at the moment there are a lots of hacks to extract the parameters from the URL like extractLemma() in https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:PDD/helperFunctions.js. mw.util.getParamValue() does not solve the problems and has the same problem with ISO 8859-1 encoding. Maybe it is possible allocate a JavaScript object with the normalized URL parameters for each (special) page. +1. I've seen similar problems on Portuguese Wikipedia. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email --- You are receiving this mail because: --- You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. ___ Wikibugs-l mailing list Wikibugs-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
[Bug 31918] ISO 8859-1 URL encoding for JavaScript
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31918
--- Comment #7 from mybugs.m...@gmail.com 2012-07-01 01:36:06 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #0)
On ISO 8859-1 URL encoding
mw.util.getParamValue('title')
stops on decodeURIComponent('%D6sterreich') with
URIError: malformed URI sequence
BTW: Any chance of this being related to bug 25846?
--
Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email
--- You are receiving this mail because: ---
You are the assignee for the bug.
You are on the CC list for the bug.
___
Wikibugs-l mailing list
Wikibugs-l@lists.wikimedia.org
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
[Bug 31918] ISO 8859-1 URL encoding for JavaScript
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31918 Dereckson dereck...@espace-win.org changed: What|Removed |Added CC||dereck...@espace-win.org See Also||https://bugzilla.wikimedia. ||org/show_bug.cgi?id=37378 --- Comment #5 from Dereckson dereck...@espace-win.org 2012-06-13 08:39:33 UTC --- Adding bug #37378 in see also. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email --- You are receiving this mail because: --- You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. ___ Wikibugs-l mailing list Wikibugs-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
[Bug 31918] ISO 8859-1 URL encoding for JavaScript
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31918 Mark A. Hershberger m...@everybody.org changed: What|Removed |Added Priority|Unprioritized |Normal -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email --- You are receiving this mail because: --- You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. ___ Wikibugs-l mailing list Wikibugs-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
[Bug 31918] ISO 8859-1 URL encoding for JavaScript
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31918
--- Comment #1 from Brion Vibber br...@wikimedia.org 2011-10-24 14:49:38 UTC
---
There are several possible fallback decodings depending on the configured site
language; replicating that in the JS code would be some annoying extra effort.
Redirecting on a GET request would not be untoward, though we could also see it
on some POST requests, where that's less reliable... in general though it's a
bit flaky to be manually trying to read things out of the query string that JS
sees, as various things might not be there *at all* -- if they come in via
rewrite rules, PATH_INFO (eg /wiki/Foo) or POST data.
Your example URL is a good example of one that could easily be switched to
using a different URL style that would not have a 'title' query string
parameter at all; if $wgActionPaths is set up for history you might have eg
http://de.wikipedia.org/history/%C3%96sterreich.
If you're *on* that page, you should be getting the title via
mw.config.get('wgTitle') and should make no assumptions about query string
parameters.
If you're somewhere else and trying to decode some foreign URL that's been
provided to you, then it's probably a bit tricky to try to make any claims
about it.
--
Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email
--- You are receiving this mail because: ---
You are the assignee for the bug.
You are on the CC list for the bug.
___
Wikibugs-l mailing list
Wikibugs-l@lists.wikimedia.org
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
[Bug 31918] ISO 8859-1 URL encoding for JavaScript
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31918
--- Comment #2 from foma...@googlemail.com 2011-10-24 15:14:22 UTC ---
Of course mw.util.getParamValue('title') can be substituted by
mw.config.get('wgTitle') or mw.config.get('wgPageName').
On
http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Spezial%3ABeitr%E4gecontribs=usertarget=%D6sterreicher
there is no suitable substitute for mw.util.getParamValue('target').
--
Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email
--- You are receiving this mail because: ---
You are the assignee for the bug.
You are on the CC list for the bug.
___
Wikibugs-l mailing list
Wikibugs-l@lists.wikimedia.org
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
[Bug 31918] ISO 8859-1 URL encoding for JavaScript
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31918
--- Comment #3 from Brion Vibber br...@wikimedia.org 2011-10-24 15:19:52 UTC
---
I don't think mw.util.getParamValue('target') will help you at
http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Spezial%3ABeitr%E4ge/%D6sterreicher
or http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spezial%3ABeitr%E4ge/%D6sterreicher however.
Possibly indicates that special pages should be exporting their parameters in a
cleaner way.
--
Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email
--- You are receiving this mail because: ---
You are the assignee for the bug.
You are on the CC list for the bug.
___
Wikibugs-l mailing list
Wikibugs-l@lists.wikimedia.org
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
[Bug 31918] ISO 8859-1 URL encoding for JavaScript
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31918 Mark A. Hershberger m...@everybody.org changed: What|Removed |Added Priority|Unprioritized |Normal CC||m...@everybody.org -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email --- You are receiving this mail because: --- You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. ___ Wikibugs-l mailing list Wikibugs-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
[Bug 31918] ISO 8859-1 URL encoding for JavaScript
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31918 foma...@googlemail.com changed: What|Removed |Added Priority|Normal |Unprioritized --- Comment #4 from foma...@googlemail.com 2011-10-24 18:46:52 UTC --- Yes, at the moment there are a lots of hacks to extract the parameters from the URL like extractLemma() in https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:PDD/helperFunctions.js. mw.util.getParamValue() does not solve the problems and has the same problem with ISO 8859-1 encoding. Maybe it is possible allocate a JavaScript object with the normalized URL parameters for each (special) page. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email --- You are receiving this mail because: --- You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. ___ Wikibugs-l mailing list Wikibugs-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
