FS#1754 URLs of search results unusable in forum software

ACL & Authentication

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  2009-09-15 wobo

  Searching in a wiki returns search results which contain '&s[]=searchword' in the URL. This results in marking the searchword in the displayed page. But it renders the URL unusable in a forum which displays URLs with BBCode. The '[' and ']' break the BBCode and the URL is not "clickable".
  
  Detailed description of an example:
  - search for "OpenOffice" in http://www.mandrivauser.de/doku
  - the search returns http://www.mandrivauser.de/doku/doku.php?id=allgemein:tipps&s[]=openoffice
  - try to insert this in a phpBB3 post. It will not work.
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  2009-09-17 ach

  If phpBB3 cannot link valid URLs, it's surely a bug in phpBB3 and not DokuWiki, no?
  
  As the bug in phpBB3 won't be fixed (see http://www.phpbb.com/bugs/phpbb3/13451) you can use "%5B%5D" instead of "[]".
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  2009-09-17 wobo

  I see your "it's not our fault" point. But IMHO in the practical world it would be more helpful to find a userfriendly solution, one which does not involve normal users having to add cryptic code into an URL. Why don't you use these notations in the DokuWiki code instead of the "[]"? Everybody else would be happy.  
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  2009-09-17 wobo

  Ah, ok, scratch that remark, I did not know that there were other occasions where "[]" is used in URLs - really never saw this before, I thought it was a unique thing of DokuWiki. The phpbb people seem to have a solution in that thread you mentioned.