[PATCH] (Variables encoded twice) Fix bug when change time periods on trends.cgi and histogram.cgi

Andreas Ericsson ae at op5.se
Sat Sep 6 10:34:31 CEST 2008


Pedro Lucas Borba Pereira wrote:
> Hi people,
> 
> My names is Pedro Lucas and I work for Brazilian Government with Nagios.
> 
> I found a error when generate reports with trends.cgi and histogram.cgi like 
> Brian Murphy, when change the time periods and click on Update button a 
> message of error is displayed:
> "It appears as though you are not authorized to view information for the 
> specified service..."
> 
> The cause of this error is that trends.cgi and histogram.cgi are using the 
> function url_encode to encode a variable already is encoded by other cgi or by 
> it self.
> 
> In this patchs I just removed url_encode of variable "svc_description" and 
> then I get it work.
> 
> Annexed following the patches.
> 

What version of Nagios are these patches made against? I know several similar
patches have been sent to the nagios-devel@ list, so Ethan may well have
something like this in his tree already.

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