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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, March 13 2013 @ 10:59 PM EDT

Sorry about taking so long to explain. I wanted to wait until the good people at Popehat had a chance to look at things before I posted anymore. I was actually worried that even pointing out that the ' is the problem would cause them trouble.

The problem is not in the links.

The problem is in the referrer field as others have surmised.

What happens is Groklaw puts the title of the comment into the url, which turns into the referrer when you click on the link.

Popehat couldn't handle the ' in the referrer field. Often, that indicates a SQL injection vulnerability, but I've been assured that is not the case in this instance.

To make things more interesting, Groklaw puts more than one comment on a single page. The url for that page includes the title of the comment you clicked on. Not necessarily the title of the comment with the link. So depending on exactly how you got to a particular link, it may or may not work for you.

For example using this link and scrolling up to the Let's try again comment should cause the link to work. However, if you click on the link to go directly to the "Let's Try Again comment," then the link will not work. (For some reason I can't get the URL for the "Let's Try Again" comment to embed properly in this comment.)

The reason some people had problem with the original link is that they clicked on the "Here's Why American Airlines Chose Samsung Over Apple When It Bought 17,000 Tablets" and then scrolled down to the original link to Popehat.

I hope this makes everything clear. It was just an interesting interaction between the URL's that Groklaw uses and a minor glitch in Popehat.

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