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URL: https://forums.webwiz.net/forum_posts.asp?TID=27008
Printed Date: 02 April 2026 at 8:34pm
Software Version: Web Wiz Forums 12.08 - https://www.webwizforums.com

Topic: bug report

Posted By: alabamatoy
Subject: bug report
Date Posted: 18 February 2009 at 10:11pm

Version 9.5

URLs pasted into a post as a link or directly as text which contain single quote (eg ' ) will have the quote stripped out. Here's an example:

http://www.somesite.somedomain/somedir06/somefile.html" rel="no follow - http://www.somesite.somedomain/somedir'06/somefile.html

Move your mouse over the link and notice that the single quote is not there in the URL that the browser actually sees....

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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 19 February 2009 at 8:41am

This is not a bug but done by design.

Single quotes are not generally used in URL's but are used to launch XSS Hacking, SQL Injection, and other malicious hacking attempts, for this reason single quotes are stripped from URL's in Web Wiz Forums.

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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: alabamatoy
Date Posted: 01 March 2009 at 4:28pm

OK. I have told the web admin not to allow any single quotes in URLs any more.