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[Mitch Pirtle]

On 1/11/06, Jeff Phelps Clearmark <jphelps at clearmark.com> wrote:
> Mitch:
>
> I should have used the word trap:  They are grepping certain characters
> from URLS and responding with a 403 if they are found.  I've actually
> seen this on a few hosts.  The pipe in particular seems to have hosed a
> few hosters - so that's why the traps.

Wow, that is a shame. We should try to collect the names of these ISPs
to pressure them to use their craniums. This is like chopping the head
off over a bad haircut!

> AK uses the pipe extentively as a string delimiter; it is passed in the
> URL and stored as part of data in the db for string parsing/delimiting..

The pipe character is a standard delimiter, I cannot believe someone
would be filtering pipes - actually I cannot believe someone would be
filtering URLs at all.

*spacemonkey shakes head

> I've solved it and working through bugs now   I just replaced it
> everywhere with the tilde (lots of hand editing to handles ORs, etc) but
> on my test site it seems stable.

Sounds like an overzealous reliance on GET, when POST would most
likely do the trick ;-) Sorry to hear of your troubles, and more
surprised that ISPs would muck around with URLs *gasp*

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Mitch Pirtle
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