[pmwiki-users] auto rewriting of urls that look like dates (bad)

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 06:30:14PM -0400, W Randolph Franklin wrote:
> Thanks.   I wasn't aware of wikilog's existence.  However,
> grepping my whole wiki tree found wikipublisher mentioning it.
> So, I'll disable wikipublisher and try again.

Yes, wikipublisher includes wikilog, so it also has the same issue.
Both of these rewrite any dates they find in the markup to 
be a different format, including dates in links and other places
where they should probably be left alone.

Pm



> On Tue 29 May 2007 18:22:03 you wrote:
> > On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 06:11:09PM -0400, W Randolph Franklin 
> wrote:
> > > I included this url in my wiki page:
> > >
> > > [[http://foo/connect-2007-05-25.tgz|the tarball]]
> > >
> > > pmwiki rewrote the url to something like
> > >
> > > http://foo/connect-Sunday-25-May-2007.tgz
> > >
> > > This is pmwiki 2.2.0-beta17.
> >
> > PmWiki doesn't rewrite urls containing dates.  However, the
> > wikilog.php is often reported to do so.
> >
> > Are you perchance running wikilog.php?  If so, I think that's
> > the culprit.  You might check the cookbook page [1] to see if
> > anyone has a fix for this, or search the mailing list archives
> > to see if anyone has reported a fix for this.
> >
> > If you're not running wikilog, then I suspect something else
> > may be the culprit.  But PmWiki itself doesn't convert dates
> > in urls.
> >
> > Pm
> 
> 
> 
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