Weird bug
Weirdest bug I’ve seen in a long long time. If I delete the star out of the following text:
Ubuntu is coming out with a Long Term Support version (3 years) real soon now. It’s got a few cycles to go before it’s released in April. I want it now, so I downloaded Lucid Lynx* alpha 3, and found some weirdness – which you’d expect in an alpha release.
WordPress says it doesn’t know what or who I’m talking about. “Post? What post?”
One character. Two days to make that reproducible.
Weird.
OK I checked, it does it for me too.
Change it to LynX* and it still does it.
Change it to Lyny and it doesn’t.
And it does it on the comments too. If I take the * out above the comment post fails.
*Without the asterisk
Tried it on another WP installation and got a 403 error.
So you’re saying if I type this:
Lynx
It will fail?
Not for everyone evidently.
Lucid Lynx
If your post contains “Lynx ” that’s the end of the game. I can post this because I used the HTML entity for a non-breaking space instead of a space.
Found a post about it in the WP forums.
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/360440
Ok, I’ve rubbed up against a similar problem myself (commenting to danielbowen.com.au). But the twist is my post does not contain “Lynx”.
The closest word to this in my comment is EZ-Link, but I’ve posted that word before without problems.
Nick.
Spoke too soon. The good Daniel has narrowed it down to
“but it would make sense if they decide to turn it into a two hour ticket”
Nick.
Hopefully the upgrade to WP3.0 has fixed the bug where I can’t say Lynx with a space after it in a comment or post.
W00t! Looks like it’s fixed!