Re: colon inside brackets without URL crashes phpwiki

Hi Carsten!

I'm on phpwiki 1.3.4 (prepping for 1.3.7), with Apache 1.3.27, and php 4.3.0

Thanks, and it's good to hear that the crash is less extreme on newer 
builds - thanks!

Micki

At 6:19 PM -0500 12/18/03, Carsten Klapp wrote:
> On Thursday, December 18, 2003, at 05:17  pm, Micki Kaufman wrote:
>
> > Hi folks.
> >
> > I've got a page with the following line indelicately pasted in by a user:
> >
> >  [ATTENTION :As per the first list above many cases did NOT work. I 
> > do not know if this is due to the exclude, prefs or both]
> >
> > it seems that since the user was making use of a colon inside 
> > square brackets, and without a properly formatted (in this case, 
> > no) URL, it crashed with a fatal db error. Of course, 300 seconds 
> > later it's back in business, as set by the connections default in 
> > php.
> >
> > Can our esteemed gurus verify this bug, and possibly trap it?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Micki
>
>
> Hi Micki,
>
> I tried this out in the SandBox both with new markup and old, on the 
> PhpWiki server (phpwiki.sf.net/phpwiki) which is running 1.3.7pre.
>
> There it gives only a PHP Warning message at the bottom of the page. 
> It's not an ideal response from parsing that particular line but at 
> least there is no crash.
>
> What version of PhpWiki, PHP, and Apache (or other http server) are you using?
>
> Carsten


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Micki
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