https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21027
Summary: Requests with utf-8 in the URL return a outdated page
revision
Product: MediaWiki
Version: unspecified
Platform: All
OS/Version: All
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: Normal
Component: General/Unknown
AssignedTo: [email protected]
ReportedBy: [email protected]
Created an attachment (id=6637)
--> (https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/attachment.cgi?id=6637)
pcap file showing the problem
I have noticed that if i request the URL
http://de.wikinews.org/wiki/Nobelpreis_für_Physik_für_„die_Meister_des_Lichts“
using the text mode browser links, i get a old (outdated) revision of the page.
I have tracked this issue and found that it is caused by links sending the
special characters in the URL unencoded, directly as 8bit utf-8, and not in %xy
encoding. If i change the URL to use %xy encoding
(http://de.wikinews.org/wiki/Nobelpreis_f%C3%BCr_Physik_f%C3%BCr_%E2%80%9Edie_Meister_des_Lichts%E2%80%9C).
However as it seems, mediawiki actually can handle requests with utf-8 in the
url, but for some strange reason it returns a old page revision when requesting
that way.
I will attach a pcap-trace which shows first a request using links and the a
request using lynx (lynx does the %xy encoding). You will notice the different
page revisions returned.
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