BBS attachments

I wish that the BBS made valid URLs from attached files.

At present, it uses the filename with the article number. This would be fine if it URLencoded non-URL characters (e.g. space), but it doesn't. That's a discomfort in the posterior.

Unfortunately, this is a bug in the wwwthreads software. I have gotten in the habit of making sure all files I upload (to any server for any reason) don't have spaces.

Note that some browsers (such as IE) have no trouble with spaces in file names.

I guess I should change my wish to, "I wish Paul would kick the wwwthreads people to fix this" (and that they actually do fix it...). As well as the disappearing read-marks bug.

You're welcome to kick the wwwthreads people yourself about it.

The disappearing-read-marks bug hasn't been conclusively traced back to the wwwthreads software. It could be in the database code. I looked for it in the wwwthreads support forums and couldn't find it, meaning that it looks like no other wwwthreads users have had it happen.

I looked for it in the wwwthreads support forums and couldn't find it, meaning that it looks like no other wwwthreads users have had it happen.

Interestingly enough, I have not had the "read/unread threads bug" show up on my computer in several months now, when it used to be an absolutely reliable daily occurrence in months past.

I was even able to define and categorize the exact problem: The last-read thread in each forum would be listed as being unread the next time I logged onto the bbs. This was 100% repeatable. Now, for whatever reason, the read flag is behaving the way it is supposed to for me.

Go figure.

tanstaafl.

The disappearing-read-marks bug hasn't been conclusively traced back to the wwwthreads software. It could be in the database code. I looked for it in the wwwthreads support forums and couldn't find it, meaning that it looks like no other wwwthreads users have had it happen.

You need to look harder.

Subject: 5.1.5 "new post" bug
Subject: postlists marks new > no new.

Note that in both cases the bug was happening on their own forums, and they still haven't been able to figure it out.

Borislav

Thanks! I'll log in there and throw in my two cents.

Crap. I logged in and verified via email, but it still won't let me post to that thread because it says "Only registered users can access this area. Your registration has not yet been approved by our site administrators."

It's cause their forum is using the UBB forum and not the wwwthreads code, I think.

For me, it usally manifests itself by unmarking everything read in the current session. I've got into the habit of closing and restarting my browser every day or two to minimise the damage when it happens (it occurs most days).

According to the http standard, URL's with spaces in them are invalid. You never used to see URL's with spaces in them on the Internet until IE introduced the "feature" of automatically re-writing URL spaces at %20.

Netscape 6.x series and Mozilla both re-write URL's to include the %20 in place of spaces as well.

Isn't this BBS software written using PHP? If so, it should be simple to make it put a %20 in place of all spaces. A few months back I modified the Ultimate Bulliten Board code used on nsxprime.com to fix this very problem-- only took one line of code to fix.

I wasn't talking just about spaces, of course. See the attachment, which I called test % ? " ' ` & - [ ] < > &copy; &#163; £ # \ ~ .txt and which should have been encoded as %20%26copy%3B%20%26%23163%3B%20%A3%20%23%20%5C%20~%20.txt>http://empeg.comms.net/files/46345-test%20%25%20%3F%20"%20'%20%60%20%26%20-%20%5B%20%5D%20<%20>%20%26copy%3B%20%26%23163%3B%20%A3%20%23%20%5C%20~%20.txt.

Of course, something in the upload truncated the name to http://empeg.comms.net/files/46345-test%20%25%20%3F%20...

Why not use the urlencode() function in PHP to fix this? Take a look at:
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.urlencode.php

Whoa, that post totally screwed up my Flat Mode view.

Crap. I logged in and verified via email, but it still won't let me post to that thread because it says "Only registered users can access this area. Your registration has not yet been approved by our site administrators."

Maybe you can start a new thread and link to the previous ones?

(Excuse the slow reaction time - I can't find the time to read every post these days )

Borislav