Hello You didn't answer my first question. Which version of SOGo are you using?
I have one 4.1.0 and one 2.3.23 running in production with several thousand users on each of them. Both do not have that bug. And as I hinted, that would be a bug, as parameters in URLs are standard. Kind regards, Christian Mack Am 18.11.19 um 17:12 schrieb Cornelis Bockemühl ([email protected]): > > Dear Christian, > > Thanks for looking into it! > > No, in that case I cannot share an original, but I set up a Thunderbird mail > with the same account, looking into that same message and see the raw source > of the HTML mail. That mail I am currently referring to has a plain text part > and a HTML part as quoted-printable, and if I decode that part this is how > the link looks like (server part replaced by nnnn): > > href="https://nnnn.nnnn.nnn/lt.php?s=f33e07026ad5650044d5e4ef3d160c93&i=695A1452A114A9745"; > > However, if I open that mail with SoGo and have the mouse over that link, I > see in the lower left corner of the screen the same thing, but the & is > replaced by &, and if I click on that link, I am forwarded to - just a > one pixel dot. Obviously meaning that the link was wrong! > > If now I am manually entering the above link into a browser, without the > damaged ampersand, I come to a page that lets me download some document - > which is how it is supposed to work. > > I have no idea whether the & is really PHP code or not, but to me this looks > like: the lt.php is some script which takes the parameters s=... and i=..., > which are separated by that &. And if the & is replaced by &, then it > "sees" a parameter like amp;i=... - and does nothing sensible. > > What I know is: It does not work like that! > > What I don't know: who is the "guilty party": > > - either SoGo should leave the & intact, not replacing it by some &, and > simply bring me to the intended linked location. This is what btw. also > Thunderbird is doing with that same mail: here the link is working properly! > > - or the writers of that lt.php script should add some additional code that > takes care of the possibility that somebody has damaged the link, so ignoring > any amp; at the beginning of a parameter. > > My guess is: SoGo should not do the damaging in the first place! > > Regarding the SoGo version that I am using: Actually I have it not installed > myself, but I use it because it is provided by my internet provider, > netcup.de, and in my web interface I did so far not find some "about" or > similar that tells me the version. > > Best regards, > Cornelis > > Am Montag, November 18, 2019 15:53 CET, "Christian Mack" > ([email protected]) <[email protected]> schrieb: > Hello > > Am 18.11.19 um 11:37 schrieb Cornelis Bockemühl ([email protected]): >> >> Dear Sogo community, >> >> My provider is offering us Sogo as a groupware user interface for mail, >> contacts and calendar, and I am very happy with it! But there is one little >> technical detail that is regularly creating trouble: ampersand signs in >> links that I am receiving by mail. >> >> So what is happening: I receive a mail with a link, click on it - and do not >> get anything! Then I use some other mail program, receive the mail, click on >> the link - and everything is just fine. >> >> And looking into details I see that SoGo was just converting an ampersand >> sign & which is part of the link into & while other mailers simply kept >> it as it is. >> >> I had already a conversation with the sender of such a mail - and they say >> of course that this is the fault of my mail program, ie. SoGo! And I am >> afraid that I will hear now from the SoGo community that this is the fault >> of those people who send me links containing & chars - because that is a >> special character in HTML code, so it is not correct to include it without >> some kind of escaping. Still there are many links that contain & chars in >> order to pass parameters to some PHP code! >> >> Not finding any mention about "ampersand" in the issues tracker, I have a >> tendency to enter this as a SoGo bug, but I did not do so yet; rather I want >> to hear some expert opinions about the subject here! >> > > PHP has nothing to do with that. > Parameters in URLs are a standard defined way to provide options to > scripts, who produce HTML. > This works in SOGo, at least for me. > > Which version of SOGo do you use? > Can you give an example email (raw text)? > > > Kind regards, > Christian Mack > > -- Christian Mack Universität Konstanz Kommunikations-, Informations-, Medienzentrum (KIM) Abteilung Basisdienste 78457 Konstanz +49 7531 88-4416
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