[Pmwiki-users] Re: $UrlPathPattern defined/commented
Christian Ridderström
chr
Sun May 23 11:37:27 CDT 2004
On Sun, 23 May 2004, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> ..., but I've yet to find a real URL that end in period,
> comma, or question mark.
I've actually come across one... a link to Microsoft Exchange server read
something like:
http://218.100.232.10.
where the last '.' made my browser (Opera/Linux) choke. This is of course
a really bad example, since I suspect that the URI above is invalid :-)
> However, I see tons of places where wiki authors will put a URL at the
> end of a sentence and immediately follow it with a period, comma, or
> question mark that should not be part of the URL.
I agree, and think the current behaviour is really clever.
> PmWiki effectively does this already -- but more robustly -- it looks
> for , . ? followed by something not allowed in a URL (including space).
> If the , . or ? is followed by something that's allowed in a URL,
> then the , . or ? are part of the URL.
I guess this could be added to the documentation somewhere -- I can write
it, but someone please give me a good pagename? ("ExternalLinks"?)
/Christian
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