Not sure what to call this...
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<insert laughter here>
Trying to insert the above text without either using HTML entity codes or having other text causes the post to fail with "Post must be longer than 8 characters."
Not sure why it isn't counting towards the post length?
Green's Theorem
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@piisfun I think the whole text inside
<...>is being seen as an HTML element and stripped before the count happens. That in turns makes the code look at an empty post. -
@Terabyte It shouldn't do that though... otherwise it leaves the software open to script injection attacks.
Green's Theorem
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@piisfun It's probably only the character count function that incorrectly interprets angle brackets as HTML, you can't actually insert HTML that way as evidenced by your original post.
Whoever said nothing's impossible never tried slamming a revolving door.
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@myskaros given the 65535 character limit noticed the the bookworm character summary thread, I have to wonder if the error message was generated by the underlying database, or if it's a programmer response using the output from the character counting function. If it's the later, then there's a potential buffer overflow exploit.
Morning and Mourning sound alike for good and sufficient reasons.
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@jcochran They seem to be handled separately, so that limit isn't fooled.
I just tested it.
