url encoding in slugs

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boomhauer created: https://orchard.codeplex.com/workitem/20004

I tried writing a blog post about specific url encodings that show up sometimes, and thus I wanted specific percent encoded strings to show up... IN the url...

This actually causes the slug to not work.

ie, I would like a slug to literally show something like "/what-does-%20-mean"

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@bleroy commented:

Please explain what exact slug you entered and what the result was.

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boomhauer commented:

I tried creating an article titled "%E2%80%8B", so that the url would look like url.com/%E2%80%8B . The page could not be found.

It is a slightly older site though, so this may be repaired now.

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@bleroy commented:

I don't understand. Why don't you use the real characters that you want?

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@sebastienros commented:

\ Closed by sebastienros 12/03/2013 1:02PM

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@sebastienros commented:

You can also provide you custom logic for slug generation

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boomhauer commented:

Because the article was about url encoding!

But it proves a point that even if a % is found in the url slug somewhere, I think it will not work correctly. it should be encoded in any case, since it will be used in a url. My test case proved this was not working.

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boomhauer commented:

If you decide this doesn't need to be implemented, then you are deciding the system is ok with a bug in it.

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@sebastienros commented:

If you want the url to look like this, then you should just set it in the slug text, once it's generated. It should work. If it doesn't work then this is a bug.

Repro steps:

• Create a new content name Foo
• Change the slug from 'foo' to '%E2%80'
• Save

Expected result: The slug should not be '%E2%80' and no validation should occur and the page should be accessible through /%E2%80

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boomhauer commented:

I actually want the title to be this too. Again, I'm running an older version so this may already work in the newer ones, but if not, it's a bug.

I'll create a couple test cases that fail and post them here.

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boomhauer commented:

I just reproduced this.

-created blog post with title "%e2%80%8b" -left slug as default, also: "%e2%80%8b" -post is saved and shows on the blog page as a new post. The title is displayed correctly, and the preview text for the post also is shown. -Click the link to the post and I get a "resource cannot be found" 404 page. -The link to the post has the correct url encoding, with the original percents encoded, so link is: http://thesiteurl.com/%25e2%2580%258b

Definitely a bug, at least in my older version.

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@jetski5822 commented:

Do you know what version you are using out of interest?

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boomhauer commented:

I believe i'm running 1.3, pretty old...

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@sebastienros commented:

Todo: try to repro on 1.8.x

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Try to repro and test if it is fixed.