[pmwiki-users] four character string crashes pmwiki

[Petko Yotov]

> Try using the HTML entity for "|", ie. "|"

Oh, it appears that some e-mail clients and mailing list archives render 
the character instead of the entity. The entity for displaying the 
vertical character | in XML is written with these characters:

   & # 1 2 4 ;    (remove the spaces between them)

Alternatively, you may search the documentation of your hosting provider 
on how to enable or disable the security modules - sometimes it is 
possible.

Petko

On 2015-06-26 22:22, Petko Yotov wrote:
> I am guessing your installation has the mod_security or something
> similar enabled. Try using the HTML entity for "|", ie. "|" and
> see if it can be posted and saved.
> 
> People reading your page will see "|" and can copy the code, it will
> work fine when pasted to a terminal.
> 
> Petko
> 
> On 2015-06-26 22:01, Selah Lynch wrote:
>> When I edit a page in pmwiki and I put the following four character 
>> string
>> '" | ' (double-quote, space, vert-bar, space)... when I click save I 
>> get a
>> "The Connection Was Reset" message.    I also tried pasting within a 
>> [= =]
>> and it make no difference, still crashing.  Each character on it's own 
>> does
>> not cause problems.
>> 
>> Any idea why this could be happening?
>> 
>> PS. This sequence of characters pops up a lot when documenting bash
>> commands... that is why I care!
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Selah Lynch
>> 
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