[FCDE-Wolfseye]

With all the characters that were blocked in 4.1, I wonder why it still is possible to use whatever characters to show up with no Player Name at all. Saw that today. Not in ASE, not in QTRACKER, not in HLSW, not on Serverstatus on Website, that one guy or whatever just had a blank field at his name. That should however be solved and made impossible I think.

Wolfseye

[Phantomas71]

alt+0160 for the ban

F1

[Woekele]

Yeah, that should be made impossible indeed. Apparently, some characters have been missed. It will be looked into!

[Csan (old)]

just wondering.. what does the server do if I connect to the server with
+connect <ip> +name "<badchars>Name"
?
Doesn't let in? Or auto-kicks? Or what?

[Woekele]

It should strip all un-allowed chars afaik.

[FS BladeKiller]

Which would leave a blank if there were no allowed characters so maybe that's how this is happening.

[FCDE-Wolfseye]

I think someone once told me that there are characters possible, which i now remember, didn´t looked like anything i see all the time, that were not displayed in URT. So if the solution is just to remove all those not allowed characters from the playername, then it is not stopping the displaying of a blank playername. That should be important to correct.

[Woekele]

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Which would leave a blank if there were no allowed characters so maybe that's how this is happening.

When it gets blank, it becomes UnnamedPlayer, thus apparently there's a char that does not show, but is not filtered out either.

[Csan (old)]

which makes me think...: how is it filtered out, technically speaking?
What language is that? If it supports regular expressions (or alike), something like
[^a-zA-Z0-9] (and so on) would be better (filtering out everything that doesn't fit in the list of allowed chars).

[Woekele]

Yeah, a white-list would be better than a black-list I'd say, but I'll leave it to the real elite coder, TwentySeven

PS It's C and I don't think it supports regex.