Bug Report: Periods in URLs

[tyrven]

This is more of a bug report than a feature request.

Currently, some sections allow users to drill down by product details (such as, say, clockspeed under computer processors or resolution under monitors). I love this feature and use it extensively.

Unfortunately, the feature doesn't work if the filter name includes a period. For instance, in the above monitor example, there is a filter called "Max. Resolution". Because of the period after "max" it throws an error.

I assume that this is due to the server filtering URL's containing periods not affilitated with filenames (such as in directories). I assume this could be fixed by either removing that filtering restriction (with potential security consequences), removing the periods or otherwise encoding them to get around the URL restriction.

I've found this issue in a number of sections. The error returned is a standard 404 (i.e., "The requested URL [x] was not found on this server").

Jeremy

Apologies for the delayed reply - directly emailing us via the contact form will get you a faster response.

Thanks for reporting this, Jeremy, we'll check it out.

-Lara