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[4364] 2.0 RC3 - urls that contain [brackets] are truncated

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N. N.:
It is tracked, yes, though for the time being (only for a little while longer) the project it is tracked for is not public yet. :)
Around the release of 2.0 gold, the data gathered for the next SMF version should be sorted out too, and it will be public as well.

N. N.:
According to http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986#section-2.2, brackets in URLs are not valid. This cannot be considered a SMF bug.

Oya:
except there are plenty of cases where it is used in a url even in smf itself...

N. N.:
It really should not be.
Can you please tell, to what uses do you refer?

Oya:
ok maybe i was slightly hasty

it IS used any time you have multiple form elements with the same name but mostly these arent sent by GET

the search system in particular uses it to identify boards to be searched - for example the contextual search for this board adds:

--- Code: ---<input type="hidden" name="brd[37]" value="37">
--- End code ---

your mod site definitely DOES use it though - searching for smf 20rc2 and 20rc3 gives you

http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?action=search;downloads=;smf_versions[]=54;smf_versions[]=51;bool=or;asc;start=10

while it isnt necessarily valid html it does get used in GET for search purposes

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