diff --git a/doc/bugs/CGI_edit_and_slash_in_page_title.mdwn b/doc/bugs/CGI_edit_and_slash_in_page_title.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..f9f30d05f --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/bugs/CGI_edit_and_slash_in_page_title.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +Try clicking the Edit link for http://ikiwiki.info/todo/Add_showdown_GUI_input__47__edit/ + +The link produces a query string that the edit CGI interprets to +mean `edit.mdwn` in an `Add showdown GUI input` subpage. + +There's something there now, but only because I created it. When +I first tried it, it came up blank. I tried several different ways +of altering the escaping of the query string to get the real page to +come up, but I never succeeded, so I just grabbed the original text +from git and pasted it into the new page.... + +So somehow the generation of Edit links and the CGI for doing the +editing need to get in agreement on just how they're going to +escape slashes in a page title. + +--Chapman Flack