Discourse is processing markdown in URLs

[Zecc]

Continuing the discussion from ‭🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:

@Zecc said:

@ben_lubar said:

@Mikael_Svahnberg said:

I think I am trough here.

Fig 1. Mikael Svahnberg

I literally shat giggling.

Filed under: reading in the toilet, TMI

Discourse in its infinite wisdom decides a URL which reads

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b8/Cattle_water_trough_-_geograph.org.uk_-_747178.jpg

must be transformed into

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b8/Cattle_water_trough_-<em>geograph.org.uk</em>-_747178.jpg

[Maciejasjmj]

@Zecc said:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b8/Cattle_water_trough_-geograph.org.uk-_747178.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b8/Cattle_water_trough_-geograph.org.uk-_747178.jpg

[Maciejasjmj]

CNR.

Unless you mean in quotes, then... well, they're fucked anyway.

[Zecc]

Already reported back in November in meta.disco:

https://meta.discourse.org/t/underscore-in-url-link-causes-markdown-problem/21835

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