> On 22 Feb 2019, at 09:59, Vincent Massol <vinc...@massol.net> wrote:
>
> Hi devs,
>
> Because of tomcat and because tomcat is by far the most used container for
> xwiki and because we also bundle tomcat in the debian and docker
> dsitributions,
Re docker and debian we already set the proper config for Tomcat so the issue
is with all users not using those distributions, which represents a sizable
proportion (around 25-30%). I believe almost 100% of those are having the
problem at some point.
Thanks
-Vincent
> I think we should disallow / and \ in page names by default. It's causing too
> much trouble for users. We keep having users posting problems and for one
> user who post a problem there are 100 who don't.
>
> The latest one:
> https://forum.xwiki.org/t/please-help-broken-link-routing-cannot-open-page-from-navigation-any-help-appreciated/4448
>
> Implementation idea:
> * Offer an extension point in the create page UI to allow plugging some
> cleaning algorithm
> * Provide the \ and / cleaning algorithm by default
> * Handle backward compat. Find ways to not break existing users who are
> having / and \ in page names. For example we could imagine a property in
> xwiki.properties that we would set to point to the hint of the / and \
> cleaner component. Thus existing users would need to voluntarily upgrade
> their xwiki.properties to have it if they want it. We would need to provide
> some script to convert existing pages with / and \ too probably.
>
> WDYT?
>
> Thanks
> -Vincent
