Opened 5 years ago

Closed 3 years ago

#13610 closed Patch - Bug Fix (Trac EOL)

MythWeb: Fix url encoding of sort links in column titles

Reported by: Nigel Jewell Owned by: Stuart Auchterlonie
Priority: minor Milestone: needs_triage
Component: Plugin - MythWeb Version: v31-fixes
Severity: medium Keywords:
Cc: Ticket locked: no

Description

I've discovered a small bug in MythWeb fixes/31 that is also present in master and older branches.

If I perform the following navigation on MythWeb:

  • Click "Searches" heading
  • Click "Movies, 3½ Stars or more" link
  • Click "Title" colummn heading

The results returned are no longer filtered by the canned search (Movies, 3½ Stars or more) and if a lot of programs are available in the results it could blow up with: Fatal error: Allowed memory size of <num> bytes exhausted.

The reason for the issue is that the canned search in the sort link is not encoded correctly. The application then fails to recognise the canned search in search.php and discards it; if (empty($Canned_Searches[$search_name])) ....

The page tv/searches has the following link:

<a href="tv/search/canned%3AMovies%2C%203%26frac12%3B%20Stars%20or%20more">

The page tv/search/canned%3AMovies%2C 3%26frac12%3B Stars or more has the following link:

<a href="tv/search/canned:Movies, 3&frac12; Stars or more?sortby=title">

it should be:

<a href="tv/search/canned%3AMovies%2C%203%26frac12%3B%20Stars%20or%20more?sortby=title">

The root cause is the use of PATH_INFO when building the link in includes/sorting.php. PATH_INFO has been previously decoded and is not reencoded on output. An alternative way would be to use REQUEST_URI as that has not been decoded.

Attachments (1)

sorting.patch (476 bytes) - added by Nigel Jewell 5 years ago.
Tested patch that uses REQUEST_URI rather than PATH_INFO.

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Change History (3)

Changed 5 years ago by Nigel Jewell

Attachment: sorting.patch added

Tested patch that uses REQUEST_URI rather than PATH_INFO.

comment:1 Changed 5 years ago by Nigel Jewell

comment:2 Changed 3 years ago by Stuart Auchterlonie

Resolution: Trac EOL
Status: newclosed

We have moved all bug tracking to github [1]

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[1] - https://github.com/MythTV/mythtv/issues

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