Opened 16 years ago

Closed 15 years ago

#5434 closed defect (fixed)

nuvexport cannot handle '&'

Reported by: tobias@… Owned by: xris
Priority: minor Milestone: 0.21.1
Component: perl / nuvexport Version: 0.21
Severity: medium Keywords:
Cc: Ticket locked: no

Description

If the db-password contains an "&", mythtv will save it as an "&" in the config-file. So if nuvexport reads this file with the regular expression (and not via an xml-parser), it will not recognize this.

The solution which worked for me was to replace the &. In line 278 of the MythTV.pm (I am using Ubuntu and in my case it's in /usr/share/perl5/) you can find this code:

elsif ($line =~ m#<DBPassword>(.*?)</DBPassword>#) {

$mysql_conf{'db_pass'} = $1;

}

I replaced this code with:

elsif ($line =~ m#<DBPassword>(.*?)</DBPassword>#) {

my $pwdtmp = $1; my $find = "&amp;"; my $replace = "&"; $pwdtmp =~ s/$find/$replace/g; $mysql_conf{'db_pass'} = $pwdtmp;

}

Chris Peterson wrote me the following about the bug:

[...] This is actually more about the perl bindings (which nuvexport uses) not unescaping entities in the XML code. Easy fix [...]

If I can help anyhow, please let me know.

Tobias

Change History (2)

comment:1 Changed 15 years ago by Dibblah

Status: newassigned

comment:2 Changed 15 years ago by xris

Resolution: fixed
Status: assignedclosed

(In [20324]) unescape some html entities in the mythtv conf db password field. closes #5434

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