Double quotes in the chatroom cause it to lock up

subscribing

See also here for another sighting of this bug: http://drupal.org/node/144598

If anyone wants to see this bug in action you should be able to go here to these two test chat rooms to experiment:

Chatroom that is already frozen:
http://www.ithou.org/chatrooms/chat/4 [if it is not frozen you can freeze it by typing in double quotes as data somewhere in the text]

However, on the EXACT same site this other chat room works [at least until someone types in a double quote]:
http://www.ithou.org/chatrooms/chat/3

If by chance someone has already been fiddling around with these and they are both frozen, you can reset the rooms by typing in a large number of new lines of text into the text entry space [approximately 15 lines] and then refreshing the screen. The chat room should "un-freeze" and go live again.

Thanks for looking at this.

Blessings,
Albert

Thanks for figuring this out and taking the time to post. I would have never found the problem.

OK, here is a patch. It escapes characters into the html entities upon submission and unescapes them when they get added to the chat message area.

patch appears to work just fine! fixes the problem!

Thanks so much for finding a solution!!!!

Blessings
Albert