Character creates redirect for home page

  • Resolved emilybop

    (@emilybop)


    4 years ago

    Hi,

    First of all, thank you so much for such an amazing plugin. I’ve used it on 100s of sites and it’s great!

    I uploaded some redirects (CSV is here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/vvpd4q2yuhk71md/redirection-www-parasoft-com-november-6-2020.csv?dl=0) to Redirection. Everything was fine except for line 202. The ‘ (apostrophe) caused an odd glitch. Instead of just not being able to process the redirect, / redirected to /test-pyramid-continuous-testing/

    I haven’t encountered this issue before. Obviously the ‘ character caused the issue, but this still seems like odd behavior. Can you shine any light on it? Thank you!

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  • Plugin Author John Godley

    (@johnny5)

    The quote character is used in a CSV to delimit columns with spaces. If you have a misplaced quote then it will break the CSV parsing. All actual quotes should be escaped.

    Thread Starter emilybop

    (@emilybop)

    Wouldn’t breaking the CSV parsing just break the redirect, though? I’m not sure why it redirected to the home page.

    Plugin Author John Godley

    (@johnny5)

    It redirects the home page, not redirected to the home page. Also, it’s an invalid character not a quote.

    The CSV parser and sanitizer will do it’s best with what is there, and it resulted in a home page redirect.

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