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Bug 31059 - Wikipedia page "&" shows unusual page
Wikipedia page "&" shows unusual page
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: MediaWiki
Classification: Unclassified
General/Unknown (Other open bugs)
unspecified
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
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Reported: 2011-09-21 06:45 UTC by arun90
Modified: 2011-09-21 13:26 UTC (History)
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Description arun90 2011-09-21 06:45:21 UTC 
Pages "&", "&a", "&am", "&amp" produce the expected "article not found" page.
Pages "©", "<", ">", """ produce the expected "bad title" page.

Page "&" produces an error page with the following footer:

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If you report this error to the Wikimedia System Administrators, please include the details below.

Request: GET http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/&, from 67.188.136.234 via sq73.wikimedia.org (squid/2.7.STABLE9) to ()
Error: ERR_ACCESS_DENIED, errno [No Error] at Wed, 21 Sep 2011 06:44:20 GMT

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Comment 1 Niklas Laxström 2011-09-21 13:26:51 UTC 
It's intended. It blocks bad spiders and other broken bots efficiently.
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