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Glitch when saving an edited file after timing out

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Folks,

This has happened to me a couple of times:

-While using "Edit 2" to modify a problem file, for various reasons I ended up with webwork "timing out".

-When I returned to work on the problem which was still up on my computer screen, the first thing I did was click to "Update" the file and I was sent to the login screen.

-After I relogged in, the file that was saved had all of the special characters converted to html codes.

Here's an example of part of a file after the save:

loadMacros(

&quot;PGstandard.pl&quot;,

&quot;MathObjects.pl&quot;,

&quot;answerHints.pl&quot;,

&quot;PGchoicemacros.pl&quot;,

&quot;PGstatisticsmacros.pl&quot;

);

FYI: We are using: theme: math3 | ww_version: 2.8 | pg_version: 2.8

The most recent upgrade was done on Jan 31, 2013.

--rac

Re: Glitch when saving an edited file after timing out

by Michael Gage - Saturday, 20 September 2014, 7:37 PM

This is a known bug. http://bugs.webwork.maa.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2989

Fixed in pull #297 to develop around January 21, 2014. This should also be in release/2.9 as well although I believe it was pulled into 2.9 a week or so later.