Developers of Sympa

["Adam Bernstein" <address@concealed>]

> causes it to break.)  They replace "$" with "\$", instead of "%xx" (the hex
> code), which I can't get to work.  I'm probably being stupid somehow.

Further info:  What's actually happening is escape_chars() is working as
designed, and is replacing "$" with "%24" (the hex code), but I think that
code in the URL is causing the same problem as a bare $ in the URL causes,
namely a "500 Internal Server Error".  It's probably because the URL is
getting fed into the arcsearch_id command, which is a perl script, which
chokes on a $...?  Escaping it as \$ may, in fact, be the best answer.

And my previous patch was incomplete -- you also need to remove 0x24 from
the list of characters to be replaced within escape_chars(), or else my
replacement with \$ is never achieved:

in tools.pl:

    foreach my $i 
(0x25,0x20..0x24,0x26..0x2c,0x3a..0x3f,0x5b,0x5d,0x80..0x9f,0xa
0..0xff) {

becomes:

    foreach my $i 
(0x25,0x20..0x23,0x26..0x2c,0x3a..0x3f,0x5b,0x5d,0x80..0x9f,0xa
0..0xff) {

    adam