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posted by martyb on Sunday November 16 2014, @11:13PM   Printer-friendly
from the no-pile-of-poo-char-here- dept.

This is a story where we can test replies to comments containing character entities and utf-8 chars

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  • (Score: 2) by martyb on Sunday November 16 2014, @11:25PM

    by martyb (76) on Sunday November 16 2014, @11:25PM (#28182) Journal

    I'm not a robot like you. I don't like having disks crammed into me... unless they're Oreos, and then only in the mouth. -- Fry

    According to TheMightyBuzzard, when I posed:

    & < > "

    He replied:

    yep. the only place we should see & instead of & nowadays is in the &from=rss link from the rss feed
    and that only cause that's the way it's always been and it'd mess tracking up if we changed it now.

    • (Score: 2) by martyb on Sunday November 16 2014, @11:34PM

      by martyb (76) on Sunday November 16 2014, @11:34PM (#28183) Journal

      According to TheMightyBuzzard, when I posed:

      &amp; &lt; &gt; &quot; <--- those are the ones you want to test to see if we *create* them from plain text??

      He replied:

      yep. the only place we should see &amp; instead of & nowadays is in the &from=rss link from the rss feed
      and that only cause that's the way it's always been and it'd mess tracking up if we changed it now.

  • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday November 17 2014, @10:22AM

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@soylentnews.org> on Monday November 17 2014, @10:22AM (#28184) Journal

    quote " gt/lt > amp &

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  • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday November 17 2014, @10:30AM

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@soylentnews.org> on Monday November 17 2014, @10:30AM (#28185) Journal

    quote " gt/lt > amp &.

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  • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday November 17 2014, @10:35AM

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@soylentnews.org> on Monday November 17 2014, @10:35AM (#28186) Journal

    quote " gt/lt > amp &..

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    • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday November 17 2014, @10:36AM

      by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@soylentnews.org> on Monday November 17 2014, @10:36AM (#28187) Journal
      This one appears to be the start of working correctly.
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      • (Score: 2) by martyb on Tuesday November 18 2014, @08:20AM

        by martyb (76) on Tuesday November 18 2014, @08:20AM (#28190) Journal

        amp & and &amp;

        The title, and the preceding paragraph, was comprised of these characters (each of which is quoted):

        "a" "m" "p" " " "&" " " "a" "n" "d" " " "&" "a" "m" "p" ";" "a" "m" "p" ";"

        Submitted as "HTML Formatted" without previewing.

        • (Score: 2) by martyb on Tuesday November 18 2014, @08:22AM

          by martyb (76) on Tuesday November 18 2014, @08:22AM (#28192) Journal

          amp & and &amp;

          The title, and the preceding paragraph, was comprised of these characters (each of which is quoted):

          "a" "m" "p" " " "&" " " "a" "n" "d" " " "&" "a" "m" "p" ";" "a" "m" "p" ";"

          Submitted as "Plain Old Text" without previewing.

        • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday November 18 2014, @08:33AM

          by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@soylentnews.org> on Tuesday November 18 2014, @08:33AM (#28193) Journal

          That mean it came through okay then? Looked the same in email notification thankfully.

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          • (Score: 2) by martyb on Tuesday November 18 2014, @11:37PM

            by martyb (76) on Tuesday November 18 2014, @11:37PM (#28194) Journal
            <p>It looks like it came through okay... I was waiting to see what the notification would look like.  (I have this nick set up to notify me of any replies via the web.)  Well done, fine sir!

            <p>I've still got some more ideas up my sleeve, but lack the time at the moment to pursue them.  I hope I might have some time in the next few days to try more.

            <p>These are the variables to permute:
            <0l>
            <li>Characters under test: ampersand, less-than, greater-than, quote, and a sampling of UTF-8 1-octet chars, UTF-8 2-octet chars, UTF-8 3-octet chars, UTF-8 4-octet chars.
            <li>Character representation: literal character, named character entity, decimal numeric character entity, hexadecimal numeric character entity
            <li>Text location: (all places where user input is permitted) story submission title, story submission text, story dept. (e.g. from the hyphenated-words dept.), story text, story extended text area, comment title, comment text, comment reply title, comment reply text, journal article title, journal article text, journal comment title, journal comment text, journal comment reply title, journal comment reply text, poll text, poll comment, nickname .sig text, anything else??)
            <li>Story submission / comment submission format: "Plain Old Text", "HTML Formatted", "Extrans (html tags to text)", and "code"
            <li>Text viewing location: on-line web page, e-mailed story, web message, RSS feed, Atom feed, "Authors page" (http://dev.soylentnews.org/authors.pl)
            <li>Preview count: how many times a user has previewed a story submission or [journal|story] comment prior to submitting: 0, 1, 2 (preview has had some issues in the past)
            </ol>

            <p>If I have missed any user-visible input/output/modification location, please reply and let me know!
            • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday November 18 2014, @11:51PM

              by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@soylentnews.org> on Tuesday November 18 2014, @11:51PM (#28195) Journal

              I think that covers it all but to be clear we're looking at output primarily because input shouldn't be filtered anymore.

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              • (Score: 2) by martyb on Wednesday November 19 2014, @06:19AM

                by martyb (76) on Wednesday November 19 2014, @06:19AM (#28196) Journal

                I think that covers it all but to be clear we're looking at output primarily because input shouldn't be filtered anymore.

                Yes, indeed! I got distracted in trying to discover all the inputs/outputs that I failed to include the expected output. :/

          • (Score: 2) by martyb on Thursday November 20 2014, @10:40AM

            by martyb (76) on Thursday November 20 2014, @10:40AM (#28197) Journal

            Ugh. failed to preview and had a typo in specifying an ordered list as well as having submitted as "Code"; am resubmitting as "HTML Formatted".

            It looks like it came through okay... I was waiting to see what the notification would look like. (I have this nick set up to notify me of any replies via the web.) Well done, fine sir!

            I've still got some more ideas up my sleeve, but lack the time at the moment to pursue them. I hope I might have some time in the next few days to try more.

            These are the variables to permute:

            1. Characters under test: ampersand, less-than, greater-than, quote, and a sampling of UTF-8 1-octet chars, UTF-8 2-octet chars, UTF-8 3-octet chars, UTF-8 4-octet chars.
            2. Character representation: literal character, named character entity, decimal numeric character entity, hexadecimal numeric character entity
            3. Text location: (all places where user input is permitted) story submission title, story submission text, story dept. (e.g. from the hyphenated-words dept.), story text, story extended text area, comment title, comment text, comment reply title, comment reply text, journal article title, journal article text, journal comment title, journal comment text, journal comment reply title, journal comment reply text, poll text, poll comment, nickname .sig text, anything else??)
            4. Story submission / comment submission format: "Plain Old Text", "HTML Formatted", "Extrans (html tags to text)", and "code"
            5. Text viewing location: on-line web page, e-mailed story, web message, RSS feed, Atom feed, "Authors page" (http://dev.soylentnews.org/authors.pl)
            6. Preview count: how many times a user has previewed a story submission or [journal|story] comment prior to submitting: 0, 1, 2 (preview has had some issues in the past)

            If I have missed any user-visible input/output/modification location, please reply and let me know!