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by Joe User
Sat Mar 26, 2016 11:46 pm
Forum: [3.x] Tickets Discussion
Topic: PHPBB3-14527 Dataloss caused by link shortening (maybe)
Replies: 35
Views: 74056

Re: PHPBB3-14527 Dataloss caused by link shortening (maybe)

it's been a feature for many years and I don't think false positives impact usability in any meaningful way.
OK, if unnecessary queries of DNS records that modern Clients (Browsers and Searchengines) do for prefetching and the like are no impact to usability (they cost time and bandwith, think of ...
by Joe User
Fri Mar 25, 2016 11:24 pm
Forum: [3.x] Tickets Discussion
Topic: PHPBB3-14527 Dataloss caused by link shortening (maybe)
Replies: 35
Views: 74056

Re: PHPBB3-14527 Dataloss caused by link shortening (maybe)

The hardcoded rewrite of

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[nonalpha]www.something
to

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[nonalpha]http://www.something
like [nonalpha]www.something or (nonalpha)www.something or /nonalpha/www.something or .nonalpha.www.something

Hopefully it is more clear now what i mean. Thanks.
by Joe User
Fri Mar 25, 2016 8:19 pm
Forum: [3.x] Tickets Discussion
Topic: PHPBB3-14527 Dataloss caused by link shortening (maybe)
Replies: 35
Views: 74056

Re: PHPBB3-14527 Dataloss caused by link shortening (maybe)

Sorry, wasn't meant to be abrasive tone, just a proposed fix.
by Joe User
Fri Mar 25, 2016 7:48 pm
Forum: [3.x] Tickets Discussion
Topic: PHPBB3-14527 Dataloss caused by link shortening (maybe)
Replies: 35
Views: 74056

Re: PHPBB3-14527 Dataloss caused by link shortening (maybe)

Fine, but the hardcoded

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.*www => http://www
is the real problem.
It should be restricted to

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(EOL|SPACE)www
instead of

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.*www
Even better, just remove this buggy hardcoding entirely.
by Joe User
Fri Mar 25, 2016 5:54 pm
Forum: [3.x] Tickets Discussion
Topic: PHPBB3-14527 Dataloss caused by link shortening (maybe)
Replies: 35
Views: 74056

Re: PHPBB3-14527 Dataloss caused by link shortening (maybe)

The dataloss is fixed now, thanks.

But there are some more problems with link parsing left unfixed.
by Joe User
Sun Mar 13, 2016 5:37 pm
Forum: [3.x] Tickets Discussion
Topic: PHPBB3-14535 [url] works unexpected
Replies: 11
Views: 36613

PHPBB3-14535 [url] works unexpected

This demonstrating link should not be a link.
by Joe User
Thu Mar 10, 2016 10:13 pm
Forum: [3.x] Tickets Discussion
Topic: PHPBB3-14527 Dataloss caused by link shortening (maybe)
Replies: 35
Views: 74056

PHPBB3-14527 Dataloss caused by link shortening

Since there is no progress: https://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-14527

@Devs: Stop implementing new features and fix this nasty showstopping bug first.


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