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  958   Wed Feb 23 18:07:24 2005 Entry Emiliano GabrielliAlberT@SuperAlberT.itBug reportAllr1.571boundary problem with Type lists display
using:
Display mode = threaded
List display = Subject, Type, Author, Date

in the config file (omitting "ID" then) rise the bug

ie, an unneeded "," is displayed after the "supposed to be printed" ID
  960   Thu Feb 24 11:23:44 2005 Reply Emiliano GabrielliAlberT@SuperAlberT.itBug reportAll2.5.6Re: HTML 4.1 transitional validation fails
> > as this url shows http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/problems.html#amp
> 
> > it should be used an HTML entity instead of the ampersand sign.<p> > > Can you please be a bit more specific? In which URL should the ampersand be > replaced? uhmm... http://midas.psi.ch/elogs/Forum/page2?mode=threaded&expand=0&last=7 the bug is also a "documentation bug", infact similar tricks are also in FAQs (FAQ 5 for example) I tried to substitute avery occurrence of hard coded "&" with "&amp;" but it does not do the job at all ... infact the first time the HTML code is ok, but following a link let the browser to automatically decode html entities .. and everything turns wrong again ... maybe the encoding should be done in printing-to-the-browser-time ..
  961   Thu Feb 24 12:44:29 2005 Warning Emiliano GabrielliAlberT@SuperAlberT.itBug reportAll2.5.6Re: HTML 4.1 transitional validation fails
> > > as this url shows http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/problems.html#amp
> > 
> > > it should be used an HTML entity instead of the ampersand sign.<p> > > > > Can you please be a bit more specific? In which URL should the ampersand be > > replaced? > > uhmm... > > http://midas.psi.ch/elogs/Forum/page2?mode=threaded&expand=0&last=7 > > the bug is also a "documentation bug", infact similar tricks are also > in FAQs (FAQ 5 for example) > > I tried to substitute avery occurrence of hard coded "&" with "&amp;" but it does > not do the job at all ... infact the first time the HTML code is ok, but > following a link let the browser to automatically decode html entities .. and > everything turns wrong again ... maybe the encoding should be done in > printing-to-the-browser-time .. BTW, the current url (taht should be perfectly well formed makes the elog not to display attachments ... so may be thare is a problema in the query string decoding routine ... http://somehost.it:8080/LBNAME/?mode=full&amp;attach=1
  962   Thu Feb 24 12:45:02 2005 Warning Emiliano GabrielliAlberT@SuperAlberT.itBug reportAllr. 1.571Re: HTML 4.1 transitional validation fails
> > > as this url shows http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/problems.html#amp
> > 
> > > it should be used an HTML entity instead of the ampersand sign.<p> > > > > Can you please be a bit more specific? In which URL should the ampersand be > > replaced? > > uhmm... > > http://midas.psi.ch/elogs/Forum/page2?mode=threaded&expand=0&last=7 > > the bug is also a "documentation bug", infact similar tricks are also > in FAQs (FAQ 5 for example) > > I tried to substitute avery occurrence of hard coded "&" with "&amp;" but it does > not do the job at all ... infact the first time the HTML code is ok, but > following a link let the browser to automatically decode html entities .. and > everything turns wrong again ... maybe the encoding should be done in > printing-to-the-browser-time .. BTW, the current url (taht should be perfectly well formed makes the elog not to display attachments ... so may be thare is a problema in the query string decoding routine ... http://somehost.it:8080/LBNAME/?mode=full&amp;attach=1
  966   Wed Mar 2 15:00:04 2005 Reply Stefan Rittstefan.ritt@psi.chQuestionAll Re: length of fields
> When creating/updating entries in elog, excluding the main text field are 
> there any limits on the size of the other fields?

Yes, this is controlled by the variable NAME_LENGTH in elogd.c, which is
currently set to 1500 characters. You can try to increase this and recompile,
but at some point you will produce a stack overflow and elogd will crash. So
the current length is a compromise.

- Stefan
  967   Wed Mar 2 15:19:56 2005 Reply Stefan Rittstefan.ritt@psi.chBug reportAllr1.571Re: boundary problem with Type lists display
> using:
> Display mode = threaded
> List display = Subject, Type, Author, Date
> 
> in the config file (omitting "ID" then) rise the bug
> 
> ie, an unneeded "," is displayed after the "supposed to be printed" ID

Fixed in CVS revision 1.574
  968   Wed Mar 2 17:31:33 2005 Reply Stefan Rittstefan.ritt@psi.chBug reportAllr. 1.571Re: HTML 4.1 transitional validation fails
> > I tried to substitute avery occurrence of hard coded "&" with "&amp;" but it does
> > not do the job at all ... infact the first time the HTML code is ok, but
> > following a link let the browser to automatically decode html entities .. and
> > everything turns wrong again ... maybe the encoding should be done in
> > printing-to-the-browser-time ..

That won't help, since the 'Start page = ...' string is used for redirection (outside
of any HTML). The '&amp;' thing should only occur inside the HMTL text.

I changed elogd.c to encode things properly, but I'm not sure if I covered all
occurences. Can you try release 1.576 if it works correctly?
  969   Thu Mar 3 10:21:21 2005 Reply Paul Harringtonpaul.harrington@oup.comQuestionAll Re: length of fields
> > When creating/updating entries in elog, excluding the main text field are 
> > there any limits on the size of the other fields?
> 
> Yes, this is controlled by the variable NAME_LENGTH in elogd.c, which is
> currently set to 1500 characters. You can try to increase this and recompile,
> but at some point you will produce a stack overflow and elogd will crash. So
> the current length is a compromise.
> 
> - Stefan

Thanks. Thats useful to know.

Paul
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