[TYPO3-dev] Password reset links breaking - felogin

[Michael]

On 14/02/11 23:35, Jigal van Hemert wrote:

>> Password reset email links for felogin tend to break in the email client,
>> and then the user complains that it doesn't work when they click on it.
>
> I checked the URLs a while ago and according to the web RFCs they are
> completely valid.

hmmm... I am not 100% sure about this statement to be honest :-)

According to RFC 1738 square brackets should be encoded as %5B and %5D.

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1738.txt
(section 2.2. URL Character Encoding Issues)

There is also a very old Mantis ticket going back and forth since 2006:
http://bugs.typo3.org/view.php?id=3808

I suspect the problem is more that using [ and ] in links is a common 
practice in TYPO3 since years and therefore settled. Even if someone 
could prove that this is not RFC conform, it's not worth the effort 
changing this.

...and I am pretty sure, someone will name two, three other RFCs which 
disprove RFC 1738 ;-)

See discussion: http://bugs.typo3.org/view.php?id=12892

Cheers
Michael