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Outbound Links being generated incorrectly

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  • 27-01-2012 5:23pm
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    lynchie
    Registered Users Posts: 1,990 ✭✭✭


    Saw a link on another post for http://www.google.com/+/
    Its a valid URL but its being converted to %20 when redirecting which is incorrect.


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    Boards.ie: Paddy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 619 ✭✭✭Boards.ie: Paddy


    Thanks for the report. In our effort to maintain compatibility with non ASCII character sets it looks like we screwed up on our rfc3986 compliance.

    I've put a fix in for this now, it's monstrously hacky but solves the immediate problem. We'll try to squeeze in a proper fix tomorrow.


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    Boards.ie: Paddy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 619 ✭✭✭Boards.ie: Paddy


    OK a proper fix is in now.


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    lynchie
    Registered Users Posts: 1,990 ✭✭✭lynchie


    Bumping this again paddy.

    On the following post

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=76677213&postcount=63

    The first link is is generated as "http://www.boards.ie/out?f=47&url=http://www.techmoan.com/blog/2011/11/13/a-black-box-for-your-car.html&h=f3f2d" which gives a "The destination URL provided is not valid" yet the url is correct


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    Boards.ie: Danny
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,609 ✭✭✭Boards.ie: Danny


    That link was placed into that post manually. As in somebody copied and pasted in the generated link (http://www.boards.ie/out?....) instead of pasting in the actual URL.

    If you quote the post you can see that the text the OP entered for that link is 
    [noparse][URL="http://www.boards.ie/out?f=47&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.techmoan.com%2Fblog%2F2011%2F11%2F13%2Fa-black-box-for-your-car.html&h=f3f2d"]http://www.techmoan.com/blog/2011/11/13/a-black-box-for-your-car.html[/URL][/noparse]
    whereas just a little bit lower for the youtube link you'll see it appears as 
    [noparse][url]http://www.youtube.com/.....[/url][/noparse]

    In other words, the OP pasted in a generated outbound link which they shouldn't have done. There is nothing wrong with outbound links anymore. The reason it says invalid destination is because we don't handle outbound URLs of that format anymore


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