FCKeditor resource browser failed when there is folder name with '&' character.

[Steve Organ]

One of our customers stumbled into this problem when one of his author created a subfolder with name "Upload images - P&P" under the CORPORATE_USER parent directory and placed images into it in the resource directory. After it, all the authors can no longer use the Fckeditor resource browser to access the CORPORATE_USER parent directory. It will get the "server didn't send back a proper XML response. Please contact your system administrator... <with the Request URL and Response text follows>"

The simple woraround is to remove the "&" character from the subfolder name.

Simple replication steps: 1) Create a subfolder under the resource folder name with "&" character say like OOTB default resource location: \CORPORATE_USER\CORP_TS_AGENT\Upload images - P&P 2) bring up the Fckeditor, edit a doc with RichText field that has the image insert button enabled. Click the image insert button to launch the Fckeditor resource browser to navigate down to the CORPORATE_USER\CORP_TS_AGENT subfolder ("Upload images - P&P" folder parent) ==> you will get the "server didn't send back a proper XML response. Please contact your system administrator... <with the Request URL and Response text follows>"

[Michael Osipov]

What is your server-side implementation?

[Steve Organ]

I talked to our engineering team, and we use a home grown JAVA connector so this could be a defect in our code.

[Alfonso Martínez de Lizarrondo]

If they use a custom connector it's a problem in their code