Spaces in links

Allen

Just a heads up, something this forum software has been doing for a long time.

I have two links in this post that a space is added in the link. At the right end of
both I bolded the letter before the space so it wouldn't add the space.
post #5 popular%2F Birds%2F
http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?p=1942306#post1942306

With the space in there viewers could not copy and get the code to work especially in old blocks like frames.

ian408

Allen wrote: »

Just a heads up, something this forum software has been doing for a long time.

I have two links in this post that a space is added in the link. At the right end of
both I bolded the letter before the space so it wouldn't add the space.
post #5 popular%2F Birds%2F
http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?p=1942306#post1942306

With the space in there viewers could not copy and get the code to work especially in old blocks like frames.

I copied the URL in that post. I then created a test post with several variations. 1) No text formatting. 2) No text formatting and enclosed in CODE tags. 3) No text formatting and enclosed in URL tags. These all work (the first is recognized as a URL and URL tags added).

Only when I leave the text formatting in does the link become corrupted. Then it's transformed from this:
[noparse]https://secure.smugmug.com/login?goTo=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.photosbyat.com%2Fpopular%2Fi-nTFdJgh[/noparse]

to this:
[noparse]https://secure.smugmug.com/login?goTo=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.photosbyat.com%2Fpopul ar%2Fi-nTFdJgh[/noparse]

The problem occurs when you embed BBCODE within a URL. If you want to maintain the BBCODE formatting, enclose the BBCODE within URL tags. Like this:

[noparse]
[url=https://secure.smugmug.com/login?goTo=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.photosbyat.com%2Fpopular%2Fi-nTFdJgh]https[B]:[/B]//secure.smugmug[B].[/B]com/login?goTo=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.photosbyat.com%2Fpopu[B]l[/B]ar%2Fi-[COLOR=Red]nTFdJgh[/COLOR][/url]
[/noparse]

https://secure.smugmug.com/login?goTo=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.photosbyat.com%2Fpopular%2Fi-nTFdJgh

Hope that helps.

Allen

The problem in the past was first noticed when pasting in a long string of the old slideshow code.
The code copied with the spaces included. Any spaces in it would break the code. This commonly
happened.

Have not seen the spaces for quite awhile.

ian408

Allen wrote: »

The problem in the past was first noticed when pasting in a long string of the old slideshow code.
The code copied with the spaces included. Any spaces in it would break the code. This commonly
happened.

Have not seen the spaces for quite awhile.

Can you point to an example of that? Your original post talked about links.

Allen

ian408 wrote: »

Can you point to an example of that? Your original post talked about links.

It's been quite awhile so don't think I could find any.

Allen

See bottom of first post here
http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=68430

ian408

Allen wrote: »

See bottom of first post here
http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=68430

Same deal. Only you are embedding HTML (only some of which is parsed and executed) in your posts. In that example, you would have used the CODE tags to include it without having to change the font or bold. By changing the font with a BBCODE, you stop the processing of the HTML.

You can also use NOPARSE tags although these don't always work the way you want them to.