internetarchive / internetarchive/openlibrary
MemcachedKeyCharacterError: Control/space characters not allowed
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Description
### Problem
```
/openlibrary/openlibrary/templates/type/author/view.html: error in processing template: MemcachedKeyCharacterError: Control/space characters not allowed (key=b'lending.get_availability-"identifier","ADF Project #94000114"') (falling back to default template)
```
https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL341837A/Z._M._Abouguendia
### Reproducing the bug
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Research direction
Start with templates/type/author/view.html and trace the lending.get_availability lookup that produces the MemcachedKeyCharacterError for the linked author page. Check the cache-key handling and reproduce the page locally; done means the author page renders without this error for identifiers containing spaces or control characters.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- memcached, python
- Domain
- backend
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100