Problems with Signature Format
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Topic: Problems with Signature Format
Posted By: ltlfoote
Subject: Problems with Signature Format
Date Posted: 14 August 2008 at 6:05am
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I have a lot of users that want to use fancy tickers in their signatures (like from http://www.tickerfactory.com - www.tickerfactory.com ) It creates a cute little countdown ticker in HTML or BBCodes. I had to increase the signature length beyond 200 characters to get them to save but when viewing posts, the signature shows up for a few seconds and then gets an error, it's like the discussion board is cleaning some special characters or something.
Any ideas on how to fix this?
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Posted By: StarDust
Date Posted: 14 August 2008 at 6:16am
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Before any solution, I need to know more of the error. Can you detail a bit? ------------- http://board.ebizbd.net/">  Tips, mods and skins for WWF v9.x
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Posted By: ltlfoote
Date Posted: 14 August 2008 at 6:28am
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Thanks for the reply. The signatures look like this:  It should be displaying a picture that looks like this:
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Posted By: StarDust
Date Posted: 14 August 2008 at 8:05am
Signatures like these should be added according to the BBCodes of WWF. Here, my signature is:
------------- http://board.ebizbd.net/"> Tips, mods and skins for WWF v9.x
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Tips, mods and skins for WWF v9.x Posted By: StarDust
Date Posted: 14 August 2008 at 8:07am
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Ow it got converted! Again, here, see the code
------------- http://board.ebizbd.net/"> Tips, mods and skins for WWF v9.x
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Posted By: ltlfoote
Date Posted: 19 August 2008 at 4:35am
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Thanks StarDust, sorry it took me so long to respond, but life's been busy :) I'm curious as to why these signatures worked prior to my upgrade to 9.5...in 7 they worked fine. Is there some reformatting going on? If so, is there a way to disable it? THe only reason I ask is that my board has been up for 6 years and since the upgrade a lot of signatures and even previous posts are no longer formatted like they used to be, causing some unhappy users.
Any input is appreciated!
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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 19 August 2008 at 8:23am
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These ticker images that you use could you post what the file name is for one of these images? The problem may well be that if it has a querstring attached that could course it not to show. Version 7 was not very secure, hence quite a few sites got hacked as new hacking techniques came out. This unfortunately means having to tighten up security which means that all images links are strictly scanned and any querystrings removed as they can be used to gain user data such as the users login. ------------- https://www.webwiz.net/web-wiz-forums/forum-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - Web Wiz Forums Hosting https://www.webwiz.net/web-hosting/windows-web-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - ASP.NET Web Hosting |
Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 19 August 2008 at 8:29am
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I have just found a link to an ticker on ticker factory. It looks like for some usual reason they use semicolons ';' in their links. Semicolons can allow malicious code to be placed into HTML code such as images links and is therefore stripped from links to prevent XSS Hacking which is very commonly used on forums by hackers. It seems very strange that Ticker should place semicolons in their URL's as these are commonly stripped by forum software. Maybe you should contact them and ask if they have links without the semicolons. ------------- https://www.webwiz.net/web-wiz-forums/forum-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - Web Wiz Forums Hosting https://www.webwiz.net/web-hosting/windows-web-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - ASP.NET Web Hosting |