[wp-testers] Final Beta Packages

Ryan Boren ryan at boren.nu
Fri Jul 28 22:17:52 GMT 2006


Brian Layman wrote:
> There were three things I wanted to look into for the 2.0.4 beyond just
> getting a chance to try to exploit it.  With 2.0.3, I was getting an error
> on manage post screens.  I had a post title with the ASCII for a quote in
> it.  That, for some reason, caused the onclick JavaScript to blow up
> expecting a ).  I guess it was interpreting the ASCII code for a real quote
> and the tune-up plugin didn't handle it much better.  With the plug in
> installed, I could put a real quote in the title again, but the manage page
> still had the script error.  2.0.4 seems to handle this correctly.  I
> haven't been able to duplicate this since the upgrade.

Yes, we fixed several JS escape bugs in 2.0.4.

> The next thing was an error, in version 2.0.4, that I could not isolate it
> last night.  I had a post with links to just under 30 other blog articles.
> Until the pings were actually processed, which seems to have been done
> correctly, every save action generated an error  at some irrationally high
> character position, like line 89 character 18,410.  I can reproduce this
> even now by copying the contents of that post into a new post and hitting
> save or by navigating off that page.  In ie's postdata, the content
> parameter is 108,000 characters long.  The postdata itself is a full 11430
> characters. So compared to that 18410 isn't that far into the data if you
> look at it that way.  The error is in post.php Object expected, code 0
> character 18410.  The published version of that post doesn't get the error
> and neither do other posts without the links to other blogs.


Curious.  I'll try to reproduce, but a fix probably won't make it into 
2.0.4.


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