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?vie...