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Colon in a URL results in blank page

Owen Charlotte -- on Feb. 19 2007, from Staffordshire, United Kingdom
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New YACS user here with a bit of a showstopper...

I'm just starting to evaluate YACS 7.1 as an intranet replacement but I've encountered a bit of a problem. If I go to any URL that contains a colon in the string (e.g. /yacs/versions/list.php?anchor=article:9) then two things happen:

1. The colon gets URL encoded (/yacs/versions/list.php?anchor=article%3A9)

2. A blank page results

Is this something peculiar to our installation or is this a recognised bug in YACS?

We're using a LAMP setup (CentOS, Apache 2.0.52, PHP 5.1.4, MySQL 4.1.20) and I've ran the upgrade scripts to make sure we're up-to-date.

Bernard from nearby-an-airport Associate, 6927 posts	Edit · Delete on Feb. 19 2007 While the encoding is ok, on my side I have the following error message, which is a bug: `Fatal error: Undefined class name 'cache' in /home/yetanoth/www/yacs/versions/list.php on line 118` To fix this the right solution is to edit `versions/list.php` and to insert a line to include the cache library, as follows: `// common definitions and initial processing include_once '../shared/global.php'; include_once '../shared/surfer.php'; include_once '../shared/cache.php'; include_once 'versions.php';` This will be made available with next release, thank you for your feed-back.
Bernard from nearby-an-airport Associate, 6927 posts	Edit · Delete on Feb. 19 2007 Of course, your nick name has been added to the list of YACS testers for this script...
SonniesEdge from Staffordshire, United Kingdom 3 posts	Edit · Delete on Feb. 19 2007 Bernard, what a wonderful response time you have! Thank you for the fix and I will of course repay you by testing the script when I next have access to that server. I love open-source.
SonniesEdge from Staffordshire, United Kingdom 3 posts	Edit · Delete inspired from Bernard on Feb. 20 2007 Bernard: I applied this patch to our test server and after a restart of Apache it worked wonderfully. Thank you.
Bernard from nearby-an-airport Associate, 6927 posts	Edit · Delete on Feb. 20 2007 Good to know this has been fixed. Thanks for the feed-back, and for your interest in YACS.

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