Bugs item #645906, was opened at 2002-11-30 01:52 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by zuse You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=100103&aid=645906&group_id=103 Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread, including the initial issue submission, for this request, not just the latest update. Category: Pipermail Group: 2.1 beta Status: Closed Resolution: None Priority: 5 Private: No Submitted By: Joe R. Doupnik (jdoupnik) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: User supplied HTML with % kills index.ht Initial Comment: Mailman 2.1b5. Edit archtoc.html or listinfo.html, include table with phrase width=100% and find that the list's archive overall index.html page is unformed (present but the various MM items are left as bare %(foobar)s style). After wasting a whole day on this the problem boils down to that percent sign in user-supplied HTML. It kills the high level index.html file. We don''t know about this until a full list archive operation is performed, because at the end the code creates the new index.html from the template files. Ugh. Likely some parser deep in the system is overreacting to the percent symbol. Needs fixing. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Holger Jeromin (zuse) Date: 2007-03-15 14:48 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=254889 Originator: NO Thanks. That works. But is is not very obvious for a normal mailinglist admin when editing the "Welcome email text file" per webgui. It simply generates a wrong welcome email. It costs me 15 minutes of debugging the new message. A check would be very nice, at least a warning on top of the input field "write a single % as %%" should be done. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Holger Jeromin (zuse) Date: 2007-03-15 13:46 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=254889 Originator: NO The Problem might be solved for HTML pages, but it is not solved for text! When editing subscribeack.txt it is not possible to write something like "We can reach 20% of our users", because this leads to %(foobar)s stuff. In pure text there is no workaround like this width="100%" possible... My mailman provider uses version 2.1.9 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Barry A. Warsaw (bwarsaw) Date: 2002-12-08 16:12 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=12800 archtoc.html and listinfo.html are templates (as implied by their being in the templates/xx directory :) which means Python substitutions are performed on the text. Python substitutions treat % as a special character so to get a literal % in the text you need to use %% E.g. change that to "width=100%%" and you'll be fine. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=100103&aid=645906&group_id=103