On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 10:27 PM, Neil Kandalgaonkar <[email protected]> wrote: > If I am up to date here, the fix that exists in trunk for the > API-handling code is still not going to help us. It merely excludes > highly improbable "extensions" like ".jpg&foo=bar&quux=blarg". > > But, what if your query arguments *legitimately* end with an extension > like > "http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=doSomething&page=File:Something.jpg"; > ? You can't depend on query argument order. > That's riht.
> The only solution is to encode our queryargs differently. > > So, in the last deploy I deployed a workaround for this in UploadWizard. > At the last stage before firing the AJAX query I convert any '.' in the > query data to '%2E'. > > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/90649 > > This won't trigger any bizarre bugs in IE6 and your code (if properly > written) should never know anything happened. We could advise other > consumers of our API to do the same. > I guess that could work. > jQuery 1.3, which is what we have deployed. ORLY? >>> $.fn.jquery "1.4.2" > Also, it was easier for me > to deploy this fix for UW because all its ajax calls go through an API > object. > > In jQuery 1.4 you can fix this in a more standardized way, with ajax > filters. > Well as I just pointed out, we have 1.4.2 on the cluster, and 1.6.x in trunk IIRC. So let's just do that then. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
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