DO NOT REPLY [Bug 41441] - Error 20024 on all pages request containing a ":"

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------- Additional Comments From Tom.Donovan@acm.org  2007-09-18 19:50 -------
While device names could be a small problem, the more treacherous problem is
NTFS data streams - as described in http://support.microsoft.com/kb/105763

These are prone to misuse.

Apache 2.2 (actually the APR test_safe_name() function) intentionally disallows
the ":" character within a URI on Windows. 

Also, the Windows FindFirstFile() function will return ERROR_INVALID_NAME
instead of ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND for any name attempting data stream access using
the ":" character.

The choice of the ":" character as the namespace separator in MediaWiki was an
unfortunate one for use on Windows.

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