[Mailman-Developers] 1030228 Mass Subscribe address with controlcharacter- can't delete

Tokio Kikuchi tkikuchi at is.kochi-u.ac.jp
Mon Sep 20 07:06:56 CEST 2004


Hi,

> I would be more than a bit uneasy about removing the '/' from this list
> for just that reason. Removing it would allow an address with a '/' to
> be subscribed or at least to pass this test before being subscribed.
> 
> The problem that comes immediately to mind is what happens to the links
> to the user's options page which are of the form
> http://server/mailman/options/listname/user--at--domain or
> http://server/mailman/options/listname/user@domain when user contains
> a '/'?

Problem was that '/' is not allowed to use in cookies. I will generate a
patch to fix this and upload in SF for the developers to check.

> My gut feeling is that allowing the '/' would involve a lot more work
> than just removing it from the _badchars list.


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Tokio Kikuchi, tkikuchi@ is.kochi-u.ac.jp
http://weather.is.kochi-u.ac.jp/



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