#2293 NORM Trial-3: Pilgrim doesn't support spaces or metacharacters in activity names.

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#2293: Pilgrim doesn't support spaces or metacharacters in activity names.
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  Reporter:  cscott  |       Owner:  danw   
      Type:  defect  |      Status:  new    
  Priority:  normal  |   Milestone:  Trial-3
 Component:  distro  |     Version:         
Resolution:          |    Keywords:         
  Verified:  0       |  
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Changes (by jg):

  * milestone:  Untriaged => Trial-3

Comment:

 I'm reacting to the number of security bugs over the years, where & ends
 up getting passed to Linux shells by accident, and then is used to bury
 commands into evil places.

 I *really* want the infrastructure to make this sort of attack not happen,
 without activity developer's intervention.

 Solutions that meet this requirement are fine with me.

 Replying to [comment:3 bert]:
 > Replying to [comment:1 cscott]:
 > > jg suggests that we should just ban special characters -- "Watch &
 Listen" becomes "Watch and Listen" -- and we could do the standard space-
 to-underscore conversion in the filenames to avoid the word-delimiter
 problem.
 >
 > Aargh - this is so last millenium and US centric.

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