Domain with national characters problem

I do extensive cleaning on the domain because Spammers like to load all kinds of things into a link and some of it started crashing the reporting pages. I will look at it when I find a chance. It may be that I have to set an option so that it does not perform a clean that strips the double byte characters.

I will check when I get home from work to see if there is an easy fix.

I seem to remember that I have a function called “realyrealyclean()”, but I can’t work on the code until I get home.

Keith

Thanks Keith! Looking forward for soime help and in the meanwhile I’ll keep searching ??

After a day of playing with the plugin I still haven’t find the solution. Even commenting out the cleaning functions doesn’t help. Plugin keeps redirecting to the domain with national characters stripped out.

Anyone? Or maybe somebody knows any other plugin that does the same trick but works with such domain?

Adam,

I think the function “remove_accents(” and “kpg_pf_really_clean(” could be the cause.

please comment out lines 62, 63, 68, 69, 75, 75, 289, 290
in file includes pf-404.php (2.3 version). If you are using the beta, just search for the functions in pf-404.php and comment them.

The function “esc_url_raw” might have some effect, but reading the documentation on, I can’t be sure. If commenting out the lines about doesn’t help then try also searching for esc_url_raw and commenting them.

I added these clean functions because spammers like to load urls with their spammy messages, and some try to put javascript or some code to redirect the users who view the link.

Please let me know if this helps and mark the topic as resolved.

I will add an option to limit the url cleaning in the next release so you won’t have to go through and comment the lines out again.

Keith

Thanks again Keith, I’ll try this when I’ll get back home and let you know.

Sadly, it does not help. I also tried to comment out all the guts of “kgp_pf_really_clean()” so it returned the same input that it gets but it doesn’t work also.

There must be some thing, however I’m getting close to belive that it might not be the fault of some native WordPress or PHP function rather than the plugin.

I did forgot about this post, but just to help somebody else here is the solution.

In case of domains with character quotes you need to know that these are recorded in dns systems in a slightly different way that “normal” domains. So first thing to do is to find out what is the “real” domain name, which would probably be something like “–xxnf–foo-xn--.com” instead of “foo?.com”.

From now on you just start using that “real” name in the configurations where needed and everything should work just fine.

Anyway, I consider this resolved. Thanks for help!