Last modified: 2005-01-30 04:46:55 UTC
BUG MIGRATED FROM SOURCEFORGE http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=879509&group_id=34373&atid=411192 Originally submitted by Nobody/Anonymous - nobody 2004-01-19 00:09 Article titles get truncated to 255 characters. On the test wikipedia, I created [[TestA]] (contents: "This is '''TestA'''. I will create [[TestB]].") and [[TestB]] (contents: "This is '''TestB'''. I created [[TestA]]."), then moved both [[TestA]] and then [[TestB]] to [[123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456]]. The final 6 was truncated from the resulting article title, leaving a broken redirect to the full title from [[TestA]] and [[TestB]]. The article at [[123...345]] is the previous [[TestA]]. The previous [[TestB]] appears to be gone. I prefer not to perform the experiment on a real wikipedia, and I don't have sysop access on the test wikipedia, so I haven't been able to try deleting/restoring it, to see if the contents or history of [[TestB]] survived somehow. [[User:Cyp| ''Cyp'']] 23:07, 18 Jan 2004 (UTC) ------------------------- Additional comments ------------------------ Date: 2004-03-15 16:49 Sender: SF user hashar Related to bug 855544 (long page name) https://sourceforge.net/tracker/? func=detail&atid=411192&aid=855544&group_id=34373 Software should not allow a title to be changed to a title that don't fit in the database. Code is already patched when creating a new page, need to be implemented when moving page now :0)
Sounds like a security problem; raising priority.
I wasn't able to reproduce the bug with the CVS version. I have a error message (The requested page title was invalid, empty, or an incorrectly linked inter-language or inter-wiki title.) if I try to move an article to [[123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456]]. Works fine with [[123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 12345]]
In REL1_4 and current HEAD there is a hard-coded check in Title::secureAndSplit(), which does the validity checks. Too-long titles are rejected explicitly now, rather than truncated silently. Resolving as FIXED.
