An easy feature request...

[+wwp]

Here's something that should be easy:

 

Could we please make logs on caches stop eating quotation marks?? It's really annoying to "put something in quotes" in a log, and go back to the log and find them missing (often at the cost of understandability).

 

I realize one can use two ticks (apostrophes, whatever) to emulate a quote mark but ... come on. There's just no good reason for this limitation.

 

Thanks!

[+Prime Suspect]

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Originally posted by Jay, Caine, and Becca:

Here's something that should be easy:

 

Could we please make logs on caches stop eating quotation marks?? It's really annoying to "put something in quotes" in a log, and go back to the log and find them missing (often at the cost of understandability).

 

I realize one can use two ticks (apostrophes, whatever) to emulate a quote mark but ... come on. There's just no good reason for this limitation.

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Actually, there is a good reason for this. It's to prevent people from inserting malicious code into logs. If you want quotes, just use the standard html equivalent to insert a quote into a log.

 

"Don't mess with a geocacher. We know all the best places to hide a body."

 

[This message was edited by Prime Suspect on July 31, 2003 at 11:06 AM.]

[Swagger]

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Originally posted by Prime Suspect:

It's to prevent people from inserting malicious code into logs.

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That's a really lame excuse (if it's the official reason). It's totally trivial to programmatically replace quotes with the HTML entity ( " ) while the log is being posted.

 

In perl (yes, I know they're using VB, but I refuse to learn a platform-proprietary language), it's this simple:

 

$log_entry =~ s/"/"/g;

 

It can't be that much harder in VB.

 

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Pehmva!

 

Random quote:

[+ClayJar]

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Originally posted by Cruzin!:

In perl (yes, I know they're using VB, but I refuse to learn a platform-proprietary language), it's this simple:

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[+nittany dave]

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Originally posted by ClayJar:

Let all us join together in the mighty chorus of thhbbbttting...

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LMAO!

All I needed to make the image complete was a sound file when the page loaded.