[ php-blog-Bugs-3427291 ] freetag plugin creates invalid URLs

Bugs item #3427291, was opened at 2011-10-22 15:18
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Category: Plugins
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Kevin Locke (kevinoid)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: freetag plugin creates invalid URLs

Initial Comment:
The freetag event plugin creates URLs to the RSS feed of the form rss.php?serendipity[tag]=something, however this is invalid syntax according to RFC2396 which explicitly requires that square brace characters used in URLs be escaped (they are in the "unwise" character class in section 2.4.3).  This causes validation errors with some validators (such as validator.nu) and problems with consumer programs expecting valid URLs.  To fix the problem, the URL could be correctly represented as serendipity%5Btag%5D=something, or a different convention could be adopted which avoids the need to escape any characters.

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