Ilmari Karonen wrote:
I'm not sure why the "+" is there; I
think it protects against another
type of broken proxy that turns plus signs into spaces, presumably due
to improper URL-decoding of form values.
It was added by Tim Starling ('Added + to EDIT_TOKEN_SUFFIX on report of
broken proxy from mutante')
http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/phase3/includes/User.php?r1…
Your addition of \ to the edit token:
http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/phase3/includes/User.php?vi…