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This was done by design to preserve the page display asthetics. When you copy-paste using the pfSense GUI or do other operations within the pfSense GUI, the zero-width spaces are automatically removed.

If you are viewing the raw HTML in the browser and searching that way, then yeah, you will need to compensate for the zero-width spaces.

This is not a bug. It is a feature that has been in the package for years. Without the zero-length spaces the HTML renderer sees no place to "break" an IPV6 address for display in the table cell and thus runs it way over or just cuts it off where you can't see the entire string.

No, I am not viewing raw HTML. I'm hitting Ctrl-F in Firefox. Find-in-page breaks on breaks.

While I appreciate the kiddie's-first-intro to page layout, I will point out that the pfSense rules pages neither suffer this problem nor use ZERO_WIDTH_SPACE. Perhaps using an engine which doesn't slam style="word-wrap:break-word; white-space:normal into every <td> tag JUST MIGHT also achieve this objective without breaking the most basic and useful kinds of in-browser user experience.

(And dropping 96 bytes for every row JUST MIGHT help page load times, too.)

Izaac Falken wrote:

No, I am not viewing raw HTML. I'm hitting Ctrl-F in Firefox. Find-in-page breaks on breaks.

While I appreciate the kiddie's-first-intro to page layout, I will point out that the pfSense rules pages neither suffer this problem nor use ZERO_WIDTH_SPACE. Perhaps using an engine which doesn't slam style="word-wrap:break-word; white-space:normal into every <td> tag JUST MIGHT also achieve this objective without breaking the most basic and useful kinds of in-browser user experience.

(And dropping 96 bytes for every row JUST MIGHT help page load times, too.)

The difference in the rules page versus the Suricata and Snort ALERTS tab is the sheer amount of displayed information. The columns are too narrow to display a full unbroken IPv6 address without the need for a lot of horizontal scrolling.

You are welcome to submit a modification to the PHP code that works better. Here is the link: https://github.com/pfsense/FreeBSD-ports/tree/devel/security/pfSense-pkg-suricata.

Bill Meeks wrote:

You are welcome to submit a modification to the PHP code that works better.

'k.

Izaac Falken wrote:

Bill Meeks wrote:

You are welcome to submit a modification to the PHP code that works better.

'k.

Don't forget to test any modifications with the most popular browsers. Those would be Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Microsoft Edge at a minimum. When I worked on that code long ago there were many differences between the browser rendering engines with regards to how they handled breaking long text in table cells. That's why all those particular styles are embedded in the <td> tags.

If this is waiting for me to submit a patch: it ain't coming.