Blank PriusChat pages? Remove the ?=highlight from end

thanks for your help Danny, no rush as this can be easily worked around... as always, take care of your needs first.

I did a search and it turns out there was a bug with versions 2.0.10 and earlier of phpBB that would allow someone to run a sql injection attack using the highlight parameter in the query string. I noticed that at the bottom of each page it says that prius chat is running version 2.0.13 (which is supposed to have included a fix for this bug). I'm guessing that when they introduced the fix for the original bug to disallow the sql injection attacks, they introduced a new bug which is causing the blank pages on priuschat. Just a guess on my part however.
Sorry all I have is speculation and not a solution. phpBB is open source. Maybe if I'm feeling particularly motivated at some point I'll dive in and look at the code. I'm pretty sure the phpBB staff will come up with a fix before I find anything though.

Uh???? No wonder i always have to ask my kids how to fix the computer LOL

Danny - Just checked another forum that uses a similar presentation format and noticed a slight difference. Instead of removing the ?highlight= from end just replace the ? with an &, in another words the ending should be &highlight= instead of ?highlight=. Maybe it's a simple scripting issue!!

Yeah, thanks for the help. I was woundering why none of my PC's would let me onto the different topics.

At first I thought is was the Mac Safari browser so I tried Firefox, still blank. Then I thought it was Just another Mac-unfriendly site problem.

Glad to find these posts!

Still have a width problem, even with a wide screen.

New owner, still learning
Craig C.

Danny, while you're at it, can you indeed minimize the width of this forum please? The horizontal bar always appears and that's quite annoying. I believe that if you put the ad banner on a new line all by itself, the horizontal bar will not show.

Thanks for your great work.

And thanks to Craig who mentions the width issue.

forcing a width would be tough especially since most browsers wont line break things like URLs

I figured it would be a fun little project to learn how to create a firefox extension. I've been playing around with it for a little while and came up with an extension that will automatically replace the ? with an & in the url on the priuschat site to fix the problem this thread describes. For those of you who use firefox and would like to try it out I've posted it here.

great works with netscape also. thank you thank you thank you
it removed the ? and adds the &..........

Anything as an excuse to put off doing my taxes...
I wrote a plugin for IE too, but the installer package isn't working right. If I can figure it out I'll post that one here too.

Damm, cant use it as I dont have Admin rights

Sweet, I got the installer package working. If you use Internet Explorer and want to give a try, I posted the installer package here. You will need to have the .NET framework installed in order for it to work. This is something you most likely already have if you do regular windows updates. I've only tested this with Windows XP so far, but I think it should work with other versions of Windows.
I also posted the source code here incase any of you are interested in how it works. It was fun figuring out how to put it together. I'm such a nerd.

Very nice. Thanks!...

Oh, Windows 2000 Professional...

zielin thanks for the help. makes me wonder what you do to mark time in life.

also kinda surprised no one has yet but here is some points...

now if you can figure out a program that determines what the points are good for...

100 points for you Zielin, even though I cant use the fixes

bloody system admins.... :guns: (Mine not PriusChats !)

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Great work on the firefox plugin. I was pondering doing exactly this sort of thing myself, but I don't know anything much about Java .

Dave