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Link truncation software glitch

Oldjim — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 17:56:00 GMT

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandbox_(computer_security)
same link
Compare the two links

Re: Link truncation software glitch

jnwright — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 19:10:35 GMT

Similar, although not the same, since the first link does not include the ) at the end!
It must be a rules bug. I have to add something like a _ at the end of the first to make them fetch the same page! In Firefox at least!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandbox_(computer_security)_
the same
The location is fetched differently in the Firefox titlebar and it appears that it does not include a single symbol such as a ) after the last letter in the url.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandbox_(computer_security))
fetches the same page as you got!

Re: Link truncation software glitch

pierre_pierre — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 19:30:43 GMT

on my Fire fox title bar one had a single (, the next had %28 then %29, the third two ( )
Most confusing, leave that to the experts, the last two opened the full article

Re: Link truncation software glitch

Oldjim — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 21:27:27 GMT

Quote from: jnwright
Similar, although not the same, since the first link does not include the ) at the end!

You have spotted the problem - I pasted the link into both places but the forum software left the last bracket out of the URL and yes I am using Firefox

Re: Link truncation software glitch

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 07:34:39 GMT

Seems similar to the issues we had with numeric URLs not being correctly parsed.
http://192.168.1.1 for example.
It looks like both are related to how SMF recognises URLs to highlight them. Of course, both work fine when wrapped in [url] tags - just SMF seems to get confused when it tries to auto generate the tags on the fly.

Re: Link truncation software glitch

Colin — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:25:30 GMT

Personally, I prefer it this way so I can do things like:

Quote
You can find more information on the Website (http://www.plus.net)

and have the link work...
In our internal forums that would have been turned in to http://www.plus.net) and wouldn't have worked.
I'd be tempted to say this wasn't a bug...

Re: Link truncation software glitch

Oldjim — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:39:54 GMT

Colin - did you use to work for Microsoft - it's a feature not a bug

Re: Link truncation software glitch

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 17:59:33 GMT

TBH - back in the now distant days when we used PHPBB, we didn't even have this feature, never mind about its ~~bug~~ sub-feature.

Re: Link truncation software glitch

MikeWhitehead — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 14:12:51 GMT

The function that allows for deciding what is part of the link and what isn't (IIRC) is just a regular expression, so it could be modified to include a closing bracket if an opening bracket is found after the domain suffix.

Re: Link truncation software glitch

geewizz — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 20:38:24 GMT

edit : This post ended up on the wrong thread. I had never seen this thread before finding my post on it. Strange glitch.