[771868]

Hello,

I have a problem with links like this:

http://www.forestry.gov.uk/PDF/fcpn9.pdf/$FILE/fcpn9.pdf

In case it’s been stripped out here as well, there ought to be a dollar sign before FILE. It’s in the db, so it’s being taken out on output.

I’m probably being a bit simple, but I couldn’t find the code that was doing this – I’d guess it’s something on the post_text filter.

I’m using WordPress 0.8.3.1 with the bbPress integration and WordPress Integration plugins. I would upgrade, but I don’t want to use WordPress 2.5 yet.

Thanks, Mike.

[771868]

Correction: I’m using BBPress 0.8.3.1, and it seems to have allowed the dollar sign here. Hmm…

[_ck_]

Dollar sign might have to be urlencoded? Also you can integrate bbPress 0.9 with older versions of WordPress using these instructions:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/how-to-integrate-bbpress-09-with-wordpress-23-or-lower

[chrishajer]

I thought maybe the $ needed to be encoded, but it does not:

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1738.txt

Thus, only alphanumerics, the special characters

"$-_.+!*'(),", and reserved characters used for their

reserved purposes may be used unencoded within a URL.

 

So, it’s valid. Interesting.

[771868]

Ok, thanks for this. I’ll upgrade and see what happens!

@chrishajer: Yeah, I checked out the RFC, it’s definitely an allowed character.