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Scotty32 
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 Topic: A few bugs
Posted: 24 May 2014 at 4:41pm |
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To start with, I added a number of threads to my forum yesterday and I was using copy & paste from notepad. I thought I'd removed them, but a few of the subject titles kept a tab space from notepad I didn't notice. This resulted in a "redirect loop" from the SEO URL feature.
Also there is a bug I have known about for a long time but only remember when I am updating the forum so not sure if it's been fixed or not. Not sure if it has, if it's a feature or if it's still present.
But a rather annoying bug is when a moderator edit's a post, the IP address is overwritten with the Mods IP address.
What makes it annoying, is that I created a script to help detect multiple accounts from the same person, and occastionally get the old moderators showing up throwing off my script. Is there anything that can be done about this? Should the IP be overwritten when editing a post?
Edited by Scotty32 - 28 May 2014 at 1:11pm
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Posted: 27 May 2014 at 12:37pm |
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Are you using the latest version of the Web Wiz Forums UTL Rewrite web.config file?
Will need to look in to the IP being updated when the post is edited.
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Posted: 28 May 2014 at 1:09pm |
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I'm using the .htaccess file as I have other url rewriting for other parts of the site.
Though I would imagine the problem is with the URL Generating function. As it should be stripping it out anyway?
*edit*
Just tested it here by editing this threads title. Breaks the thread here too.
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Posted: 29 May 2014 at 9:42am |
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Tabs should not be in subjects anyway and Web Wiz Forums has been updated for the next release to strip tabs from subjects.
When a post is edited the IP address for the post is also updated unless it is a forum admin editing the post. This has been updated for the next release in order that the IP address is also not updated if it is a moderator editing the post.
Than you for reporting these issues.
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Posted: 29 May 2014 at 9:44am |
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You may also wish to use the web.config version of the URL Rewrite tool as stopped updating the .htaccess version as most people now have IIS Rewrite Mod installed on their servers.
The .htaccess version now only remains for legacy purposes but may be dropped at some point.
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Posted: 16 July 2014 at 8:00pm |
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I will continue to use this thread as my bug report thread, rather than a new thread all the time.
I have started to get a lot more IPv6 visitors lately, and as I have a strict one account per person on my site, I often do IP checks to find double accounts. I have found I am unable to do a 'locate' on IPv6 using either the Web Wiz locator or other websites.
Looking at the code I think I have found out why and I suspect I will have to wait until v11 for this to be fixed.
The issue is, based on my quick research IPv6 string lengths are 46 characters but the database is limited to 30 characters. GetIP() function trims the IP to 30 characters and the 'new_post.asp' page trims the IP to 28 characters.
As I said, as this would require the database field for IPs to be extended to at least 46 characters it will require a database change. I have been here long enough to know that database changes only happen upon major releases, so it will be v11.
But I feel this is a rather large error to leave until v11 can be justified, which will likely be a long time waiting.
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Posted: 17 July 2014 at 9:26am |
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This is a known issue with IPv6 addresses over 30 characters long.
The GetIP() function was changed to trim IP addresses to 30 characters in length to prevent the forum crashing when saving IPv6 addresses until verion 11 is released when the database can be altered to increase the size of the IP address field to hold the longer IPv6 addresses.
In the meantime IPv6 addresses over 30 characters in length will be trimmed.
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