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Doubly-Encoded escape characters
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Posted by: rhanson

Just had an issue with 8Signs Firewall's http filter and HMO.

HMO sometimes (not sure why) sends sequences list %252F in the http get request. My firewall sees this as double-encoded escape sequence. The firewall first interprets the %25 as a '%' as it should but once that is converted the sequence goes from %252F to %2F which is another escape sequence hence the message.

This occured when I used the chan up/down keys to scroll down my MP3 folders.

I turned off the firewall filter and everthings fine. I put in a tech support email to Tivo to ask about this. I'll let you know what their response is.

Thought this might be of interest to this forum

Posted by: Zathrus

Er, shouldn't you put in a tech support request with your firewall vendor? The firewall should not be doing that.