TYPO3 Core

Damn these fancy html issue trackers . . .

:-)

Example link in URL bar:
index.php?id=36&TEST=blah[something]

Observed result link from a certain extension using TypoScript typoLink:
index.php?id=36&TEST=blah%5Bsomething%5D&tx_powermail_pi1[mailID]=255&cHash=c81838f48ba09c7dd254e1b37814a86e

Expected result:
index.php?id=36&TEST=blah%5Bsomething%5D&tx_powermail_pi1%5BmailID%5D=255&cHash=c81838f48ba09c7dd254e1b37814a86e

Errors:
- & should be &
- All values and parameters should be properly encoded (brackets etc.)

Well - actually the & should be only "amp;ed" for doktypes that require the amp;

HTML should get no amp; at all, while XHTML xxx should get it.

We had to fix some issues like that in a clients project still using the 4.3.x core and noticed that typolink doesn't care about the doktype at all, since it always uses htmlspecialchars for the whole URL. So it looks like we have to fix typolink completely so that it will generate a valid output for any available doktype.

Since this might break the output of extensions that are using typolink and provide a workaround for the problem, we will have to decide though, if this should be fixed in 4.5 at all.

I guess it is still open since it was not fixed.