cotonti.com : A variable type check failed

Trustmaster

Di, 22 Feb 2011 20:26:03 -0000

More detailed rules should go first, more generic rules should go below, otherwise detailed urls are captured by generic rules. In many cases it means that longer rules are placed before shorter ones with the same subpath.

aiwass

Di, 22 Feb 2011 18:49:33 -0000

These types of rewrite rules are applied:
domain.com/location*/category
domain.com/category/page-alias/ <- last / might be redundant or problematic
domain.com/category/page-alias/#comment
domain.com/tag
domain.com/tag/tagname
domain.com/xml/category
domain.com/rss/category
domain.com/xml/category/ <- last / might be redundant or problematic
domain.com/rss/category/ <- last / might be redundant or problematic

* = List

Trustmaster

Di, 22 Feb 2011 17:15:18 -0000

Hmm, seems like rewrite rules are a bit too greedy and include slashes in category argument.

aiwass

Di, 22 Feb 2011 16:21:06 -0000

Okay. If both [a-z] & [0-9] as well as dashes and underscores are fine, why does it log things as failures? That's what I just don't understand, like this:

Example:
Security A variable type check failed, expecting G/ALP for 'c' : housepacific/ - /rss/housepacific/
Security A variable type check failed, expecting G/ALP for 'c' : trackoftheday/ - /rss/trackoftheday/
Security A variable type check failed, expecting G/ALP for 'a' : pages/cosmic cowboys/ - /tag/pages/cosmic+cowboys/
Security A variable type check failed, expecting G/ALP for 'c' : djcharts/ - /rss/djcharts/

Trustmaster

Di, 22 Feb 2011 02:56:39 -0000

[0-9], dashes and underscores should be fine too

aiwass

Di, 22 Feb 2011 01:38:20 -0000

# Trustmaster : Are you using aliases and category codes with characters out of [a-z] range?

Well, there might be a 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 or 9 in the title of some pages, but none in categories, rss etc.

Trustmaster

Di, 22 Feb 2011 01:34:09 -0000

Are you using aliases and category codes with characters out of [a-z] range?

aiwass

Di, 22 Feb 2011 01:12:12 -0000

I'm wondering. I'm getting thousands and thousands (5000+ each day) of log entries (/admin.php?m=log) which are as follows:

A variable type check failed, expecting G/ALP for 'c'
A variable type check failed, expecting G/ALP for 'a'
A variable type check failed, expecting G/ALP for 'al'

Does anyone know why? Is there anything to be concerned with?
I'm running 0.6.13 / 0.6.12 with mod_rewrite for pages, lists, rss and tags.