[#5399] Problem with / (slash) in username

Hi.

I have some username with / (slash) like "pseudo/city"

With SEO the link for profile (for exemple in Kunena post) in front is :

mydomain.com/menuname/userprofile/pseudo%2Fcity

and i have an error like the profil don't exist ?

Regards.

Joomla doesn't handle slashes in htaccess URL rewriting. Does the same thing for a few other characters like comma. We'll have to add to our router file to convert it to a different character then revert the conversion when doing the user id from username checks. I highly recommend you don't allow slashes in usernames though.

forge.joomlapolis.com/issues/5399

krileon wrote: ...We'll have to add to our router file to convert it to a different character then revert the conversion when doing the user id from username checks. I highly recommend you don't allow slashes in usernames though.

forge.joomlapolis.com/issues/5399

Hi Krileon

Of course i understand that a slash in url parameters need to be encoded in %2F by the router when composing the SEO URL

But why, in input, it is not "de-encoded" in slash by the rooter ?

(Message : This profile does not exist or is no longer available)

...i have more then 200 Joomla members with usernames with a slash.

Regards.

krileon wrote: ... forge.joomlapolis.com/issues/5399

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re-Hi Krileon.

I don't see you've made an issue.
Thank's

Is-it possible to have a patch when this point is solved ?

Regards

The issue isn't our router. The issue is Joomlas htaccess rewrite rules. The URL is never reaching CB for CB to revert to a user id. To fix this we have to change / to something else then revert the change in the parsing. We've done this for comma for example. Most likely we'll need to rewrite it so we prefix with user id (e.g. ID-ALIAS) then append the username alias to it so we don't have to convert characters back and forth.

Is-it possible to have a patch when this point is solved ?

No, we don't release patches anymore. When fixed it'll be in the next nightly build after the fix is merged. I've no idea when it'll be fixed as I'm focused on GJ upgrade at this time.

krileon wrote: The issue isn't our router. The issue is Joomlas htaccess rewrite rules. The URL is never reaching CB for CB to revert to a user id. To fix this we have to change / to something else then revert the change in the parsing. We've done this for comma for example.....

But the slash in username is always encoded in %2F ??

krileon wrote: ...Most likely we'll need to rewrite it so we prefix with user id (e.g. ID-ALIAS) then append the username alias to it so we don't have to convert characters back and forth.

Yes !
Adding User-ID in prefix is (i think) a good idea to solve this.

Regards.