Author Topic: url's get truncated if they contain "special characters" like commas (Read 2683 times)

ctarascio · August 07, 2008, 01:39:36 pm

Hi,
We created a test mailing that contained 2 url's. One worked just fine but the other did not and generated a "404" error.

In researching this, it appears that the "url_tracking parser" chops certain url's off because they contain unorthodox characters... (,.). We ascertained this by looking at how the url was stored in the table.

Here is the problematic url:
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-gitmo27-2008jul27,0,1320160,full.story

I realize it is not good practice to use commas in a url, but we do not have any control over this.

Is this a bug? I will post to the issue tracker if it is considered so by others.

Also, is there a way we can get around this now, so that we can get the mailing out?

Thanks,
Cynthia

Donald Lobo · August 07, 2008, 02:04:05 pm

Yes, this is a bug. please file an issue and we'll fix it for 2.1 (and AFSC can backport it to 2.0)

To get around it, you might want to send the mailing with url tracking turned off

lobo

ctarascio · August 08, 2008, 05:43:23 am

http://issues.civicrm.org/jira/browse/CRM-3384

As always... thank you lobo,
Cynthia

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Author Topic: url's get truncated if they contain "special characters" like commas (Read 2683 times)

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