Last modified: 2005-06-24 13:04:16 UTC
The Link [http://www.bosch-presse.de/cgi-bin/cgiWebLinkImage.exe/3-10031.JPG.jpg?sid=5733990&action=jpeg&image=\\Obelix\arena2\Bilder\bosch_pb\1298\jpg_org\jpg\3-10031.jpg] is not beeing rendered, but shown like it would be inside a <nowiki> section.
de.wikipedia.org with the bug (parsing stops at the \ character and the surrounding brace-pair is displayed) is running v1.3.7wm. test.wikipedia.org on 1.4beta1 treats the \ character as part of the URL ok, but they are getting changed to the / character in the href attribute instead of being encoded. Related to bug 343.
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2396.html 2.4.3. Excluded US-ASCII Characters Although they are disallowed within the URI syntax, we include here a description of those US-ASCII characters that have been excluded and the reasons for their exclusion. [snip] Other characters are excluded because gateways and other transport agents are known to sometimes modify such characters, or they are used as delimiters. unwise = "{" | "}" | "|" | "\" | "^" | "[" | "]" | "`" Data corresponding to excluded characters must be escaped in order to be properly represented within a URI. So I'm pretty sure that a literal "\" is not allowed in a URL.
Yeah, "\" is not allowed. So it should be converted to "%5C". That's what comment 1 says. Converting it to "/" might not always work, but I'm not sure about it. Is it known that all "major" web servers treat "%5C" as equivalent to "/"? The server at www.bosch-presse.de which is linked to by the URL of this bug seems to treat "%5C" and "/" equivalently, though.
This bug only deals with links with a "\". For other problematic characters see bug 343. Changing the URL to an older version of the page that uses an ext. link with "\".
Oops! Fix the URL. In the given URL the wiki code: [http://www.bosch-presse.de/cgi-bin/cgiWebLinkImage.exe/3-10031.JPG.jpg?sid=5733990&action=jpeg&image=\\Obelix\arena2\Bilder\bosch_pb\1298\jpg_org\jpg\3-10031.jpg] produces the HTML: <a href="http://www.bosch-presse.de/cgi-bin/cgiWebLinkImage.exe/3-10031.JPG.jpg?sid=5733990&action=jpeg&image=%5C%5CObelix%5Carena2%5CBilder%5Cbosch_pb%5C1298%5Cjpg_org%5Cjpg%5C3-10031.jpg" class="external" title="http://www.bosch-presse.de/cgi-bin/cgiWebLinkImage.exe/3-10031.JPG.jpg?sid=5733990&action=jpeg&image=\\Obelix\arena2\Bilder\bosch pb\1298\jpg org\jpg\3-10031.jpg" rel="nofollow">[1]</a><span class="urlexpansion"> (<i>http://www.bosch-presse.de/cgi-bin/cgiWebLinkImage.exe/3-10031.JPG.jpg?sid=5733990&action=jpeg&image=\\Obelix\arena2\Bilder\bosch_pb\1298\jpg_org\jpg\3-10031.jpg</i>)</span></p> so I suppose MediaWiki is doing the right thing and the browser (at least firefox does so) converts "\" to "/" instead of "%5C". Hence marking as fixed.
