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any wikimedia page with %00 after it causes loop
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Author: rich13

Description:
Accidental pasting in of %00 after a wikimedia page in Safari (OS X) and possibly other browsers/platforms, causes the URL to extend, in a loop.

eg. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page%00

becomes

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/wiki/wiki/wiki/wiki/wiki/Main_Page%00 and continues to get longer.

I tried this with up-to-date versions of Safari and Firefox, both running on OS X. With Firefox, I got a redirection error, but in Safari the URL
physically extended.

I am unable to test in other browsers at this time.

Version: unspecified
Severity: major
URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page%00

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Event Timeline

• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 21 2014, 8:12 PM
• bzimport added a project: WMF-General-or-Unknown.
• bzimport set Reference to bz1440.
• bzimport added a subscriber: Unknown Object (MLST).
• bzimport created this task.Jan 31 2005, 3:49 PM
• bzimport added a comment.Jan 31 2005, 5:04 PM

zigger wrote:

I can reproduce a redirect loop error on en.wikipedia under Windows 2000 with
Firefox 1.0, but not locally where I have no Apache rewrite rules. IE6-SP1
either has a much larger redirect limit or no limit at all.
This URL does not loop: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Main_Page%00

• bzimport added a comment.Jun 16 2005, 4:12 PM

zigger wrote:

Using Firefox 1.04, the URL now returns a 404 "Not Found" error.
(en.wikipedia.org is currently running MediaWiki 1.4.5.)

• bzimport added a comment.Oct 3 2005, 4:20 PM

gangleri wrote:

with
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915
Firefox/1.0.7
it returns
404 error: File not found

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