Bug Help URLs with invalid UTF-8 cause exceptions in MySQL 8

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PaulB

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The following URL will result in a 404 with MariaDB but an exception with MySQL 8.0.x: https://xenforo.com/community/help/%c0a Furthermore, the exception may fail to log to the database and third-party monitoring services (in our case, Datadog).

This tends to be triggered often by vulnerability scanners such as Acunetix. Since it results in a lot of 500 errors, it can result in people being woken up by automated systems at ungodly hours.

Note that %c0a is invalid UTF-8. Replace...

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