topic Re: Malformed activity feed with paths containing ampersand in Alfresco Archive

Malformed activity feed with paths containing ampersand

almoehi — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 17:21:10 GMT

Hi everybody,I have a question concerning RSS feeds. Recently one of our Alfresco users created a folder containing an ampersand character (let it be "this & that" for example). That broke the site activities RSS feed because Alfresco did not replace the "&" in the link URLs (should be %26,

Re: Malformed activity feed with paths containing ampersand

afaust — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 19:54:53 GMT

Hello,

I agree, this appears to be a bug. Every template should take care to properly escape all input that can originate from users and isn't already being sanitized in another component earlier in the chain of processing.
Please report this as a JIRA.

You can only remove the defective entry from the feed via direct database manipulation, since as far as I know, there is no API for you to use to query and delete individual entries. You can use the <id> as a reference to find the relevant entry, but I am not sure wether this is post_id or feed_id in the Alfresco alf_activity_feed table…
Otherwise, after 30 days, you should no longer have any problems because entries are deleted after that time by default.

Regards
Axel

Re: Malformed activity feed with paths containing ampersand

almoehi — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 20:34:38 GMT

Hello Axel,

thank you for your helpful answer. I'll try to find the entry in the table that you mentioned. Otherwise I'll wait patiently as you say.
The bug will be reported asap.

With best regards,
Alex