Last modified: 2004-08-16 13:35:42 UTC
BUG MIGRATED FROM SOURCEFORGE http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=974082&group_id=34373&atid=411192 Originally submitted by Rowan Collins (imsop) 2004-06-16 19:47 A link of the form [http://www.example.net http://www.example.net] produces an additional, empty, link before the real one - an opening "a" tag with all the right attributes, which is immediately closed, and followed by an identical one that contains the actual link text. The result is that a default MonoBook setup will show "[link-icon]http://www.example.net[link-icon]" instead of the expected "http://www.example.net[link-icon]". The bug may have been around for some time, since it exists in standard skin but is invisible in the rendered page. Note that this is *not* the same as #583234 (https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=583234&group_id=34373&atid=411192) and all its duplicates, as the URL itself is perfectly normal. Finally, note also that this style of URL was actually encouraged at one stage as the automatic detection of plain-text links was not guaranteed to work forever. (I can't find the page I read that in now, I suspect it has been changed.) {en|meta}:User:IMSoP ------------------------- Additional comments ------------------------ Date: 2004-06-16 22:20 Sender: SF user imsop A more revealing test-case just occurred to me, and has some rather weird results: [http://www.example.net/foo http://www.example.net/bar] gives an *empty* link to .../foo and the text (".../bar") is linked to .../bar In other words, the intended target is being given a textless link, and the intended text is then being turned into a plain link. [Amusingly, this would foil anyone trying to mislead people by making a bracketed link to one thing look like a plain-text link to another.] ------------------------------------------------- Date: 2004-07-09 13:32 Sender: nobody Logged In: NO This is apparently related: URL containing "http://", i. e. Web Archive cache, can't be re-titled: [http://web.archive.org/web/20010808121638/http://www.wik ipedia.org/ Early Wiki homepage] makes only a live link to http://www.wikipedia.org/ surrounded by the rest including brackets as if it were in . en:user:Malyctenar ------------------------------------------------- Date: 2004-08-16 08:04 Sender: SF user timwi This bug has been migrated to MediaZilla: http://bugzilla.wikipedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=126 Please leave additional comments or attachments there.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 126 ***
