Kalan schreef:
On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 01:37, Ilmari Karonen
<nospam(a)vyznev.net> wrote:
Trying to edit through such a proxy would, in
particular, turn all
apostrophes in the page text into "\'" or even "\\\'". We
used to get
such edits with some regularity. Having a backslash in the edit token
prevents editing via such proxies, since they will mangle it in the same
way. As a nice bonus, it also happens to prevent some widespread spam-
and vandalbots from using those proxies to hide their trails.
Could there be also some Unicode, such as a long dash (—; replaced to
"-" by some proxies) and some characters from IPA (say, ɾ̃ɚ)?
You mean
in the edit token? There currently aren't, it's just a
hexadecimal number (0-9 and a-f) with \+ at the end.
I
sometimes see users that corrupt such characters, and finding and
reverting them is a pain.
I'm personally wary of abusing the edit token too
much for this purpose.
\ and + are there because clients mangling those characters screw up big
time, whereas Unicode/IPA damage is fairly limited (unless you're
editing in a language that uses Unicode characters extensively, such as
German).
Roan Kattouw (Catrope)