0001584: New account emails contain invalid confirmation link

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update

0001584	translations.cacert.org	general	public	2025-11-12 16:31	2025-11-19 10:27

Reporter	RogueScholar	Assigned To	jandd
Priority	high	Severity	major	Reproducibility	N/A
Status	new	Resolution	open
Platform	Main CAcert Website	OS	N/A	OS Version	stable

Summary	0001584: New account emails contain invalid confirmation link
Description	The URLs included in the new account email message are not percent-encoded, causing them to resolve to the HTTP 404 error page at https://translations.cacert.org/ instead of confirming the account and so leaving it inaccessible. When I saw that the URL in my message contained multiple colons, I figured I had nothing to lose by doing an ol' sed -e 's/:/%3A/g' \| vivaldi-snapshot …and voila, suddenly my account was confirmed. This should probably get addressed as soon as time permits; there's no telling how many willing translators have just moved on silently after encountering the same thing, considering the barrier to entry becomes doubly onerous with the need for them to roll the dice on creating yet another account here at the bug tracker to report it.
Tags	inaccessible, link, login error, mail, Translation

Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2025-11-12 16:31	RogueScholar	New Issue
2025-11-12 16:31	RogueScholar	Assigned To	=> jandd
2025-11-12 16:31	RogueScholar	Tag Attached: inaccessible
2025-11-12 16:31	RogueScholar	Tag Attached: link
2025-11-12 16:31	RogueScholar	Tag Attached: login error
2025-11-12 16:31	RogueScholar	Tag Attached: mail
2025-11-12 16:31	RogueScholar	Tag Attached: Translation
2025-11-12 16:33	RogueScholar	Description Updated
2025-11-19 10:27	jandd	Note Added: 0006329

jandd 2025-11-19 10:27 administrator ~0006329	The mails are sent by Pootle. This piece of software used on translations.cacert.org is dead upstream. If someone is willing to dig into the Python2 code it might be fixable. The system has no active administrator and should be replaced by something else. I suggested to use Weblate in my AGM team report.