Invalid pagename in URL gives "Fatal error" rather than failing gracefully
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	• bzimport
	Apr 15 2005, 6:28 PM

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I accessed a wikipage in a special namespace. Trying to return to some kind of
index-page i removed the part after the colon an got an PHP Error:

Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in
/usr/local/apache/common-local/php-1.4/index.php on line 50

I tried it with
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media:

Version: 1.4.x
Severity: trivial
URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Low.Nov 21 2014, 8:18 PM

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• bzimport created this task.Apr 15 2005, 6:28 PM

rowan.collins wrote:

Hm. I guess the title code is trying to look up a page with no name (just a
namespace) and failing, and the display code is not checking for this condition.
Testing reveals that other invalid pages behave the same, e.g.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%2b

The line in question just needs a check like "if(!$wgTitle)", initialising some
"invalid pagename" text, which I have a feeling we already have for other purposes.

Broken code in the variant handling. I've reverted the change again pending correct fixes in that code.

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