Auto parsing URLs ending with brackets

[A.T.]

A still very common bug on forums including PF. When you include a URL ending with a closing bracket, like:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cohesion_(chemistry)[/B]

the auto parser will insert the closing URL-tag before the closing bracket, breaking the URL.

 

[adjacent]

https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=755245

It is a known problem.

Best approach is to use url tags:

[noparse]wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_universe_(fiction)[/noparse]

will be correctly displayed as

wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_universe_(fiction)

(note that long urls are parsed and shortened).

 

[PhysicoRaj]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cohesion_(chemistry )
[STRIKE]How come it's not happening to me?[/STRIKE]
Okay, I think I saw it.

 

[A.T.]

Yes, I know the workarounds. You can also edit the post after auto-parsing and move the bracket into the tag. But often I forget it.

I'm just surprised that this bug is so persistent. It has been there for years.

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

I'm just surprised that this bug is so persistent. It has been there for years.

We haven't upgraded our software in years :)

 

[adjacent]

I first thought it's a problem with vBulletin, but I just tested with a phpBB(Latest version) forum and it's there too. :weird:.

 

[mfb]

If it gets "fixed", we get a bug report about this (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/vBulletin). The forum cannot predict what the user wants, so it makes a guess. URLs ending with a brackets were rare at the time vB3 (this forum version) was developed, I think, Wikipedia was still small back then.

 

[AlephZero]

You could probably improve the "guessing" with the heuristic that parentheses in URLs usually come in matched pairs.

But technically they don't have to do that. And some internet-lawyer is going to complain about URLs ending in "." not being parsed correctly