Ampersand Bug in WAP

[kapz]

For a few weeks I have had this problem using the Subsonic WAP interface on my Treo 700p. Only when certain letters are selected from the main WAP screen would I receive an error “WML content contains invalid syntax”. There were no errors in the Apache Logs, Subsonic Logs or Windows Event Viewer. I uninstalled Apache, deleted all Subsonic folders and updated J2RE runtime to version 1.50.10. Installed Apache Tomcat version 5.5.20 and Subsonic v2.9 (I was using 2.9b1) and still had an issue.

I think I have found the problem. The letters (from the main WAP page) which caused the error contained a folder with an ampersand. I can view song titles, but folders with an ampersand prevented the page from viewing. Can this be fixed?

Thanks for a great product

The same bug happens on a RAZR browser too. Can you URL encode the ampersans?

[sindre_mehus]

Yep, you're absolutely right. Will be fixed in Subsonic 3.0. Thank you for reporting it!

If you want to patch it immediately you can do so. Locate the file "c:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 5.5\webapps\subsonic\WEB-INF\jsp\wap\index.jsp", and change this line:

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<a href="${url}">${artist.title}</a><br/>

to

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<a href="${url}">${fn:escapeXml(artist.title)}</a><br/>

Sindre

[kapz]

Thank you sindre, that fixed the problem.