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Bug 322801

Summary:	Saving Submitter Bio adds unnecessary backslash characters--breaks links
Product:	z_Archived	Reporter:	Shaun Smith <shaun.smith>
Component:	Dash Submission System	Assignee:	Denis Roy <denis.roy>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:
Severity:	major
Priority:	P2	CC:	anne.jacko, denis.roy
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows XP
Whiteboard:

Description Shaun Smith

2010-08-16 11:06:40 EDT

Text saved in the submitter bio is augmented with backslashes to escape some characters.  For example "He's" becomes "He\'s".  Each time the bio is saved additional backslashes are added so "He\'s" then becomes "He\\'s".  All of these backslashes eventually show up in the rendered bio so it looks screwed up.  

Worse, Html content like links are broken by these additional backslashes so a link like:

   <a href='http://www.eclipse.org/eclipselink'>

can be turned into:

   <a href=\\\\\\\'http://www.eclipse.org/eclipselink\\\\\\\'>

which is eventually rendered as a file:// link. I don't understand that part but it is probably the renderer trying to make sense of all those backslashes.

Comment 1 Shaun Smith

2010-08-16 11:10:26 EDT

I tried to work around by pasting well formed Html in to the EclipseCon submission system and text like "He's" renders okay but links are broken after saving.

Comment 2 Shaun Smith

2010-08-16 11:13:20 EDT

Nope, the work around doesn't work.  After saving, the rendered text looks okay (so I  thought it was working) but on other pages with the bio and when you navigate back to the Submitter's page the text is messed up.

Comment 3 Anne Jacko

2010-08-16 13:04:18 EDT

Thanks, Shaun. I'm not sure how this affects how the text is rendered on the website schedule, but we'll look into it.

BTW, you can file bugs about the submission system specifically under Technology -- Dash -- Submission System.

Comment 4 Denis Roy

2010-08-23 17:06:08 EDT

Moving to the submission system.  I agree this is annoying.

Comment 5 Denis Roy

2010-08-23 17:13:37 EDT


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 298007 ***