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Proper urlencoding of "round brackets" in BBCode

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Kim_Possible
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 28, 2008 4:10 pm 
Post subject: Proper urlencoding of "round brackets" in BBCode

At least I assume that is the problem.

While playing around with my phpBB2 install, I noticed that urls with "( )" in them don't parse properly . . .

Example:
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Possible_(character)


. . . though they are parsed correctly here.

Me

In the interest of enhancing my education, what is the fix? icon_smile.gif
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PostPosted: Sat Nov 29, 2008 12:24 pm 
Post subject: Re: Proper urlencoding of "round brackets" in BBCo

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Possible_(character)

The problem is probably in bbcode.php as that's where the URL is made clickable. In fact the function is called make_clickable().

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I think I've figured it out, although I'm not a regexpert. icon_smile.gif The first preg_replace() call in make_clickable needs to include the ( and ) as valid characters for a URL, and it currently doesn't. I added them here (using quote instead of code so I can highlight the diff:
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$ret = preg_replace("#([\n ])([a-z]+?)://([a-z0-9\-\.,\?!%\*_\#:;~\(\)\\&$@\/=\+]+)#i", "\\1<a href=\"\\2://\\3\" target=\"_blank\">\\2://\\3</a>", $ret);]

Once I did that the URL's posted. Since the ( was not included as a possible "match" character it was left out of the URL.

I don't know what other implications come out of this.

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PostPosted: Mon Dec 01, 2008 2:56 pm 
Post subject: Re: Proper urlencoding of "round brackets" in BBCo

drathbun wrote:


I don't know what other implications come out of this.

You're supporting Wikipedia's arrogance that they can get away with whatever they want. Parantheses should NOT be in URLs, since they are illegal characters. Of course, that assumes that you want to play nice and follow the standards.
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 01, 2008 5:02 pm 
Post subject: Re: Proper urlencoding of "round brackets" in BBCo

Heh, I didn't realize that. icon_smile.gif I should, I guess.
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 01, 2008 5:17 pm 
Post subject: Re: Proper urlencoding of "round brackets" in BBCo

Indeed, parenthesis have to be properly raw encoded to be valid within an url. The browser does the conversion when requiring the url.
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 02, 2008 6:25 pm 
Post subject: Re: Proper urlencoding of "round brackets" in BBCo

Further reading if anyone is interested: http://labs.apache.org/webarch/uri/rfc/rfc3986.html#characters
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PostPosted: Wed Dec 03, 2008 10:11 am 
Post subject: Re: Proper urlencoding of "round brackets" in BBCo

So what you are saying is that I have just broken phpBB2 as far as apache's standards in order to comply with wiki. icon_lol.gif

I will probably put it back the way it was, thanks.

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PostPosted: Wed Dec 03, 2008 1:46 pm 
Post subject: Re: Proper urlencoding of "round brackets" in BBCo

drathbun wrote:
So what you are saying is that I have just broken phpBB2 as far as apache's standards in order to comply with wiki. icon_lol.gif

Can you say, "Nuclear meltdown"? Plus, I can get the W3C SWAT team on your @$$. Don't make me tell Bertie!
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PostPosted: Sun Dec 07, 2008 1:06 pm 
Post subject: Re: Proper urlencoding of "round brackets" in BBCo

The code has been restored to its original state, thanks
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Kim_Possible
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PostPosted: Wed Dec 10, 2008 7:51 am 
Post subject: Re: Proper urlencoding of "round brackets" in BBCo

Thanks for the info guys. I learned something new. icon_smile.gif
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PostPosted: Wed Dec 10, 2008 4:14 pm 
Post subject: Re: Proper urlencoding of "round brackets" in BBCo

wiki is not the only ones that allow this. I have seen several posts over the years on the main site about this problem.

some video sites and affiliate sites use the parens in urls.
I usually just tell people not to use them, however, if you are just trying to use a link from somewhere else in your board, you do not have the choice.


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PostPosted: Fri May 01, 2009 2:00 pm 
Post subject: Re: Proper urlencoding of "round brackets" in BBCo

Sooooo, what do I learn from this?
What happens if I change the code as described above. Do I only have to fear Bertie to whipe my ass? Then it is a fair price! icon_lol.gif
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lumpy burgertushie
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PostPosted: Sat May 02, 2009 11:12 pm 
Post subject: Re: Proper urlencoding of "round brackets" in BBCo

we learn that you can use the correct encoding for the parens and complain to wikipedia that they are using illegal characters in their urls.

If enough people complain, maybe they will act right.


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PostPosted: Sun May 03, 2009 12:32 am 
Post subject: Re: Proper urlencoding of "round brackets" in BBCo

Pssh, that's like standing on a highway telling a semi going 90 miles an hour to stop. XD

But who knows, maybe they're using a rather intelligent system for allowing those characters? Something that even Apache people would commend?

(Yes, I know what I just said! Wiki doing something like that is rather, well, infeasible, but, hey... XD)
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PostPosted: Sun May 03, 2009 4:12 pm 
Post subject: Re: Proper urlencoding of "round brackets" in BBCo

Acaria wrote:
Pssh, that's like standing on a highway telling a semi going 90 miles an hour to stop. XD

Can you please translate that for us Europeans? icon_lol.gif
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