Mouser/Microsoft breaks forum URLs

[apelly]

Mouser/Microsoft breaks the forum URLs. Mouse over the URL below and notice the missing pair of equals signs on the end. Can't escape them with = either. XSS prevention error here at EEVblog perhaps?

http://nz.mouser.com/Search/ProductDetail.aspx?qs=LKPZbmhlTxgthWb1p8PC8A==

Didn't bother to look and see if all mouser products end with what looks like a pair of nulls.

[IanB]

Testing a fix:

http://nz.mouser.com/Search/ProductDetail.aspx?qs=LKPZbmhlTxgthWb1p8PC8A==

(Oh wow, that was way too hard. I think the SMF forum code is broken.)

[alm]

Try replacing the equal signs by %3d. Most likely just a flaw in the UBB parser.

[apelly]

Ah yes. %3d does work. Doesn't display well in the post, but does indeed translate correctly in the URL.

Thanks for the workaround.

[IanB]

Doesn't display well in the post

Try the way I showed above:

[url=http://nz.mouser.com/Search/ProductDetail.aspx?qs=LKPZbmhlTxgthWb1p8PC8A%3D%3D]http://nz.mouser.com/Search/ProductDetail.aspx?qs=LKPZbmhlTxgthWb1p8PC8A==[/url]

[apelly]

Try the way I showed above:

[url=http://nz.mouser.com/Search/ProductDetail.aspx?qs=LKPZbmhlTxgthWb1p8PC8A%3D%3D]http://nz.mouser.com/Search/ProductDetail.aspx?qs=LKPZbmhlTxgthWb1p8PC8A==[/url]

Yes, I understand.

I was idly observing (badly) that you have to manually dick with the way the URL is displayed if you want it shown. A bit of a PITA.

I also wonder if it's unique over here. I did google for a minute or two looking for a solution, but nothing obvious came up, so I guessed it was probably a configurable setting. I've never bothered to look at forum software.