Oneiromancer
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I just tried to attach a JPG to a H&S thread. I kept getting the message posted without the attachment...and I even logged in using IE and it didn't work. Finally I wondered if it was because I had an apostrophe in the filename. Sure enough, when I took it out, the file was attached. I assume there are other symbols that prevent you from attaching a file as well.

Note that I originally did forget to attach the file and had to edit it in later, and I wondered if no one's noticed this before (unless my search-fu is poor) because it was an issue only with editing an attachment in. But I just tested with this thread and I couldn't attach the file even on the original post.

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Oneiromancer wrote:
I assume there are other symbols that prevent you from attaching a file as well.

Let's find out!

*attached*

EDIT 2: Disregard that, I accidentally switched comma and apostrophe. Move along.

EDIT 3: I tried out every symbol on my keyboard, and only apostrophe triggers it. I assume this might have something to do with javascript and somebody not escaping them.
As as long as you keep your filenames sane, nothing else triggers it.

EDIT 4: Heh, it escapes the filename to HTML hex codes. I think this is my browser though. (EDIT 5: Yep, Firefox escapes to HTML and Opera turns it into question marks, which firefox then turns into _'s when downloading because filenames can't contain question marks. Nifty)

Final Edit: Other than learning a few interesting things about Opera, I've pretty much established that this only occurs for apostrophes. Meanwhile, use · or ` or ´ as needed.

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Insane wrote:
Final Edit: Other than learning a few interesting things about Opera, I've pretty much established that this only occurs for apostrophes. Meanwhile, use · or ` or ´ as needed.

I'm pretty sure that's because SQL statements use apostrophes to quote strings. Which of course doesn't automatically mean that you can't use apostrophes - you'll just have to escape them first or (which I think is usually the better solution) use prepared SQL statements where you don't have to paste together an SQL statement at all...

np: Deadbeat - A Joyful Noise (Part II) (Something Borrowed, Something Blue)

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File: really.png (35.7 KB)
Downloaded 188 times.
License: Public Domain

Gives me ideas..



EDIT: Oh and I didn't think of SQL because I thought SQL would have apostrophes be escaped by default, this would be the first time I've seen it *not* being escaped.

I naturally thought of javascript due to something of similar nature happening with javascript before.

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I love that you actually have a folder called "Crap".

Mine is called "Recycle Bin".

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Insane wrote:
Gives me ideas..

http://xkcd.com/327/ seems relevant.