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| Steve Williamson wrote: |
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Hi
Thanks for elog - it's a brilliant piece of software. I'd looked all over for open source software to log/manage change requests before discovering elog; it's so flexible that I've been able to do everything I need with it.
However, I think that I've just discovered my first undocumented 'feature'. Attribute names containing punctuation characters (e.g. / and :) cause "Redirection limit for this URL exceeded" errors in Firefox 3.0.2 and corrupt the URL if they're used in a Quick Filter. I often use '/' in attribute names for brevity, e.g. "Old/New Versions" but hadn't used one in a Quick Filter before.
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Quick answer: Don't use '/' in attribute names ;-) but I guess you were kind of afraid to get this answer.
Somehow longer answer: I tried to reproduce your problem with following configuration:
[demo]
Attributes = Author, Type, Subject, Old/New
Options Old/New = Old, New
Quick filter = Type, Old/New
But I was not successful. Everything worked fine using ELOG V2.7.5-2137. Can you please check with the above configuration and tell me exactly when the redirection problem occurs? Is it during filtering on already on creating a new entry?
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Thanks for the advice!
I've just had time to set up a test for this using both empty and populated logbooks (which don't have Hardware/Software in every entry as the field was added recently) and newly created logbooks (which have consistent attributes) and saw the problem on .
The control ("Hardware/Software") causing the problem has three options "Hardware Only", "Software Only" and "Both". The problem happens every time you click on the "-- Hardware/Software --" (i.e. All) option in the Quick Filter after having previously selected one (or more) of the options as a filter. This produces the error:
The page isn't redirecting properly
Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this address in a way that will never complete.
* This problem can sometimes be caused by disabling or refusing to accept cookies.
I ran elog with a trace (attached) which shows lots of:
select(1024, [5], NULL, NULL, {1, 0}) = 1 (in [5], left {1, 0})
recv(5, "GET /Change_Log/?Hardware%2FSoftware=_all_ HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: localhost:8080\r\nUser-"..., 100000, 0) = 619
stat64("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=1323, ...}) = 0
time(NULL) = 1227528904
send(5, "HTTP/1.1 302 Found\r\nServer: ELOG HTTP 2.7.5-2130\r\nConnection: Keep-Alive\r\nKeep-A"..., 199, 0) = 199
send(5, "<html>redir</html>\r\n", 20, 0) = 20
messages after selecting "-- Hardware/Software --"
The only difference between today's test and last week's is that today the browser is on the local machine.
I also attach my (anonymised) elogd.cfg
Hope this helps
regards
Steve
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