New user activating email and link

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STeinar
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Joined: Sat Mar 26, 2011 9:03 am

New user activating email and link

Post by STeinar »

Hello All!

I have had two separate requests today from people not able to verify the activation link in the activation request email.

Theys email system seems to rewrite the url from :

/index.php?action=activate;u=123456;code=1d2kjfhh8h5hf459ferfhaf4
into:
/index.php?action=activate%3bu=123456%3bcode=1d2kjfhh8h5hf459ferfhaf4

You see the ';' are changed into '%3b'.  This urlencoding are a legal action, but not commonly used from email programs - before now  C:-)

So - I have changed the coding used by the site to handle this, but have not time ignaff for proper testing of all variants of this.


Be warned  of possible other issues - and report back to me if you do find odd things happening


BTW: A new module is now implemented to try to fix the problem with images not showing in correct direction. (up/down et
        Will only work on new images uploaded, not the old ones !!








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