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jhardin
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 Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2021 12:31 am Post subject: test post - keep getting errors attempting to post |
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| This is just a test. I keep getting "error in posting" in Portage&Programming and I'm wondering if it's the post content... |
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jhardin
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| Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2021 12:36 am Post subject: |
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...and this worked. 
Can anybody suggest why particular content would cause a "error in posting" response? Or is there any way to determine more specifically what's causing the problem? |
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jhardin
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| Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2021 12:53 am Post subject: |
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| ...okaaaay. I posted an empty message and then edited the content. That worked. ??? |
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pjp
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| Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2021 5:27 am Post subject: |
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Most likely it is this...
| John R. Graham wrote: | We have seen a rash of errors of this type lately; we're not sure why. It is triggered by:- A title that's close to the maximum allowed length that contains an ampersand ("&"), and
- A bug in the phpBB 2.x code that predicts the length of sanitized strings. The "&", you see, is converted to "&" for storage which, because of the bug, can overflow the database field that stores the title.
Alas, when this bug manifests, the post body is not even stored, so if you don't notice the posting error when it occurs (and it does report an error), then I'm afraid the post body is permanently lost. We have confirmed that the bug is fixed in the phpBB 3.x code we're working on.
The work-around, for now, is to shorten the title or else remove the ampersand. If you see the posting error, you can recover your text by simply hitting the <Back> button.
Sorry for the trouble.
- John |
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jhardin
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| Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2021 6:02 pm Post subject: |
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| The subject was certainly hitting the length limit as I was trying to squeeze in as much as possible to be clear. But there was no ampersand in it. |
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| Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2021 6:51 pm Post subject: |
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It's enough that there's any single character that needs escaping and the title is long enough.
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jhardin
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| Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2021 7:33 pm Post subject: |
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| Quotes, maybe. OK, that makes sense. |
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