[rt-users] CF Link values

[Ruslan Zakirov]

On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 10:11 PM, Gerard FENELON <gerard at eve-team.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I am using RT3.8.8
>
> I have a CF where the "Link value to" contains
>
> http://cvsweb/__CustomField__
>
> RT generates a link but if I click on the link I get a 404 error using
> Firefox.
> I am pretty sure that I saw this work when I first set it up with RT 3.6
>
> If I look at the generated source of the page, I see
>
> <td class="value">
> <a href="http://cvsweb/aaaa%2Fbbbb%2Fcccc%2Fdddd" target="_new">
> aaaa/bbbb/cccc/dddd</a>
> </td>
>
> The code is in share/html/Elements/ShowCustomFields
>
>    my $linked = $value->LinkValueTo;
>     if ( defined $linked && length $linked ) {
>         my $linked = $m->interp->apply_escapes( $linked, 'h' );
>         $m->out('<a href="'. $linked .'" target="_new">');
>     }
>
> The code for RT3.6.10 shows
>     my $linked = $cf->LinkValueTo;
>     if ( $linked ) {
>         $m->out('<a href="'. $value->LinkValueTo .'" target="_new">');
>     }
>
> How can I tell Mason not to escape '/' and still escape the rest ?


Escaping you have problem with is not happening here. Take a look into
lib/RT/ObjectCustomFieldValue.pm, method _FillInTemplateURL.


>
> In fact, I am uncertain why '/' gets escaped
> because my understanding of Mason is that 'h' refers to basic_html_escape
> which is supposed to escape only '&', '>', '<', and '"'.
>
> Thanks
> Gerard
>
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Best regards, Ruslan.