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Adding an idea with a title containing a "%" character to Ubuntu Brainstorm

Bug #746574 reported by Arseny
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Bug Description

http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/submit/2

Before adding an idea, you have to check if there are duplicates.

To do it, the website asks you to type the idea title.

But if the title contains a "%" character (like this: "100% support"), the checking is displaying as "Updating...",
while actually the request was made, but the 400 Bad Request status is returned from the server.

The user, however, doesn't see any warnings, so they may think that something is wrong with their browser or Internet connection.

The "Continue" button is disabled, so the only way to continue adding the idea is to perform the check with some other title, without the "%" characters.

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Fabio Marconi (fabiomarconi) wrote :

Hello Brian
Can you look into this?
Thanks
Fabio
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Fabio Marconi (fabiomarconi) wrote :

Hello
Clicking on the posted link a mailing list can be opened, so please report this problem in that mailing list.
Thanks
Fabio
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Changed in ubuntu:
status: New → Invalid
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Andrey (aol-nnov) wrote :

i'd like to add some clarifications to the bug. i couldn't do it before due https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/889259

actually, if duplicates check query contains a percent sig n(%) it crashes.
i've entered "100% supprt" in a check duplicates text box:

http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/ajaxdata_similar_items/100%%20support/1/

request:
Host: brainstorm.ubuntu.com

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Ubuntu; X11; Linux i686; rv:8.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/8.0

Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8

Accept-Language: en,ru;q=0.7,en-us;q=0.3

Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate

Accept-Charset: windows-1251,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7

Connection: keep-alive

Referer: http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/submit/2

Cookie: _mkto_trk=id:066-EOV-335&token:_mch-ubuntu.com-1280382379896-10351; __utma=27501688.1712138042.1280382380.1318515870.1320856027.41; __utmz=27501688.1320856027.41.14.utmcsr=linux.org.ru|utmccn=(referral)|utmcmd=referral|utmcct=/forum/talks/6982217; SESS9da00a4b035c0e3fac3d6e375e7628e2=c93fd7bfe12be04bd4684eaababa362e

response:
Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2011 17:11:26 GMT

Server: Apache/2.2.14 (Ubuntu)

Content-Length: 313

Connection: close

Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<html><head>
<title>400 Bad Request</title>
</head><body>
<h1>Bad Request</h1>
<p>Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand.<br />
</p>
<hr>
<address>Apache/2.2.14 (Ubuntu) Server at brainstorm.ubuntu.com Port 80</address>
</body></html>

affects: ubuntu → brainstorm
Changed in brainstorm:
status: Invalid → New
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Arseny (aruseni-magiku) wrote :

Thank you very much, Andrey.

It was sort of frustrating when the issue was marked as invalid.

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