The title pretty much says it all. I’ve got tags with single-quotes in them, along the lines of Pipe’s Dreams, and when I try to view the url of that tag (www.example.com/tags/tag/Pipe’s+Dream), I get a “Disallowed Key Characters” error. I suspect this may be a collision with the URL rewriting I am having the .htaccess file doing (removing the index.php via the dynamic/automatic method - code below), but I don’t know for sure.

.htaccess:

Sandwich,

This is currently a known issue… the trouble is that the Tag module looks at Pipe’s Dream, and Pipes Dream as two seperate Tags, so to remove special characters like that from the Tag name would cause an issue there.

I will keep you posted though

Gotcha. Any suggested workarounds in the meantime?

You can rename the tag “Pipes Dreams” in the Tag CP

Any progress on this? I’ve tried replacing the single quote with ` (the other character on the ~ key) and ’, but both return the same error.

Hey Sandwich,

We’ve corrected this issue now with Tag (in development)...

ALL bug fixes and several new features are all folded in. It’s just a matter of testing this thing out now

It should not be too much longer, but it is a very substantial release

This is now fixed with the new version of Tag 2.5
http://www.solspace.com/forums/viewthread/661/

Awesome! I’ll be installing this pronto. Much grass!

Bad news - the update doesn’t appear to have fixed the problem. I still get a “Disallowed Key Characters” error.

I really do think it’s a .htaccess conflict, specifically with the url_rewrite portion that removes the index.php. Can we troubleshoot this together? I can be available on virtually any IM program…

I’m not sure why we just don’t implement this feature… though it get’s a little more difficult with foreign characters…. that’s probably why.

Perhaps we can have it strip certain “common” characters… I’ll add that to the list

Pie Man - 24 October 2008 07:46 AM

I’m not sure why we just don’t implement this feature… though it get’s a little more difficult with foreign characters…. that’s probably why.

Perhaps we can have it strip certain “common” characters… I’ll add that to the list

Which feature are you talking about - supporting characters like ‘, “, etc, or adding in some type of “Tag URL Titles”?

Sandwich - 24 October 2008 07:50 AM

Which feature are you talking about - supporting characters like ‘, “, etc, or adding in some type of “Tag URL Titles”?

Semi-URL Titles… not really though…  just have it strip out quotations, quotes, etc
Supporting those characters would theoretically not work…

Pie Man, I’d be happy to work with Solspace for a proper way around this.

Any progress on this? Seems like an important thing to have working…

One simple solution is to have your host change your environment, or move you to one, that does not require forced query strings (i.e. enabling AcceptPathInfo for Apache).  Failing that, move to a host that does.  The question mark in the URL turns the URL path into a big GET variable, which is the issue at its core.

Thanks Derek