Bug: Manage Web function returns error but succeeds

When using the ManageWeb functionality to create a new web, the following oops was returned:

...?template=oopsmngcreateweb&param1=%TMPL:P{%22msg_create_web_ok%22}%

The message says:

Service Temporarily Unavailable
The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to maintenance downtime or capacity problems. Please try again later. 

However, examining the data directory afterwards, the new web appears to have been created and the documents have been copied from the template web.

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-- ThomasWeigert - 08 Apr 2005

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Follow up

I've seen this error too.

-- MartinCleaver - 08 Apr 2005

Was this Cairo or DevelopBranch?

-- CrawfordCurrie - 08 Apr 2005

Cairo for me.

-- MartinCleaver - 08 Apr 2005

As it says above, the release was Cairo...

-- ThomasWeigert - 08 Apr 2005

Tested on Dakar... works fine.

-- ThomasWeigert - 01 May 2005

Fix record

The problem occurs because the string is not encoded properly. Part of the called url is:

param1=%TMPL:P{%22msg_web_name%22}%

A way to fix this is to add the %25 manually in Manage.pm:

sub _template {
  my $theTmplVar = shift;
  return "%25TMPL:P{\"$theTmplVar\"}%25";
}

The routine _template is only used in Manage::createWeb, so I don't think this will break things.

(percentage characters cannot be encoded in a general method, like TWiki::handleUrlEncode, because this will break all variables)

-- ArthurClemens - 15 Jul 2005

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