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In Reply to: Re: is there a server problem? posted by Rod M on March 24, 2004 at 19:46:39:

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Re: have LT & GT signs become a problem that required editting? _ (nt) - Rod M 18:29:50 03/26/04 (5)
But when people use < nt > in the subject line on a long comment that exceeds the limit, then you get a hanging open bracket that makes the entire message look like a link. Rather than do a confoluted parsing to check to non-matching brakets, it stuck me that just changing them to parenthesis in the subject would do the job and it a lot easier.
Did you see something where that's a problem?
- it's not a problem, I just found the expended effort peculiar - Mart 18:46:49 03/26/04 (4)
  For me I chose the < nt > brackets to conviently vanish in some references where the warning seemed irrelevent. So, when you went out of your way to change it, it seemed to beg the question. As always YMMV...
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  - Re: it's not a problem, I just found the expended effort peculiar - Rod M 22:57:09 03/26/04 (3)
    Not really an effort, it's just a one line change. I just noticed this message today were got me to find the line.
    - http://www.audioasylum.com/audio/vinyl/messages/296344.html (Open in New Window)
    - Change them, but to - James L 22:09:12 03/30/04 (2)
      the special characters < and > Then nobody should notice the difference.
      I assume you don't allow users to post HTML code in certain places. Titles, certainly. A substitution like this will negate any attempts at HTML and will keep things looking as the user entered them. If I'm not mistaken, they'll also display correctly within an field.
      - You seem to be doing exactly the opposite - James L 22:14:48 03/30/04 (1)
        
        In Reply to: Change them, but to posted by James L on March 30, 2004 at 22:09:12:
        
        and I can't imagine why. It can only cause problems. If someone explicitly enters the special character codes "& l t ;" and "& g t ;" (minuse the spaces, of course), why substitue angle brackets? Unless that's an unintended consequence of using some library or other in your code.
        Substituting the special character codes, on the other hand, is a good way to keep HTML from being entered where you don't want it. And like I tried to say in the last post, it still displays correctly in input and textarea form elements.
        
        Re: You seem to be doing exactly the opposite - Rod M 22:33:17 04/01/04 (0)
        
        In Reply to: You seem to be doing exactly the opposite posted by James L on March 30, 2004 at 22:14:48:
        
        Actually, the code used to alway substitute the & l t ; and so forth. The problem was when the subject line got truncated due to a limit. I probably could have done a complicated fix and checked for a hung open bracket, but what happens is that is looks like an href because it picks up the next Posted link or something and the whole message is a weird link. I think I posted an example to Mart. The easy way out was to just change the bracket to a ( in the subject.
        Yes, other html get's purged out too in various input field like script tages and whatnot.

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