FCKEditor background hits a 404?

Dear All,

Firstly, thanks for a fantastic product in FCKEditor - it has really helped us out!

In our webapp we log the user out (eg. invalidate their session) if they ever get a 404 Page Not Found. This is as a security measure to stop people hunting around.

But it seems to cause problems with FCKEditor as (only occasionally) FCK seems to try to hit...

/js/editor/editor/%20+%20url%20+%20

...in some kind of background task. I know it is 'in the background' because the user stays on the current page (with FCK editor on it), but as soon as they click something (such as 'Save') they discover their session is invalid and are returned to the login screen.

Would anyone have any idea what could cause FCK to try to hit this strange URL? I imagine ' + url + ' is code for something or other?

Regards,

Richard.

Wed, 03/28/2007 - 08:39

alfonsoml

Joined: 31/12/2006

Posts: 3737

RE: FCKEditor background hits a 404?

Using an element like a HTML editor online it isn't strange at all to get 404 as soon as the people paste something from other page, so I think that you'll have to revisit that policy or your users will get tired very soon.

That's not to say that what you are seeing isn't a bug, but I haven't faced it myself.

Wed, 03/28/2007 - 13:08

kenrod

Joined: 28/03/2007

Posts: 2

RE: FCKEditor background hits a 404?

I think that's a fair point, but in my particular case my input is quite controlled (I am using FCK purely for formatting text and doing tables), so I'm not anticipating I should get any 404s.

I think it is a bug, but not a very repeatable one - I was more hoping for pointers on where it might be coming from so I can help track it down?