Bug 2652

Summary: URL parser not aggressive enough
Product: Claws Mail (GTK 2) Reporter: Pierre Ossman <pierre-bugzilla>
Component: UI/Message ViewAssignee: users
Status: RESOLVED INVALID    
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3    
Version: 3.8.0   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Linux   

Description Pierre Ossman 2012-04-26 09:05:05 UTC
The expression that makes links clickable doesn't handle some URL:s properly. E.g. this:

http://www.sporthoj.com/forum/showthread.php?201638-
Comment 1 Colin Leroy 2012-04-26 09:42:14 UTC
It stops at the 
Comment 2 Pierre Ossman 2012-04-26 10:42:57 UTC
You're right. Found some other ones, and it is a 8-bit character that stops the parsing every time.

Still, other parses seem to be lenient about this, making claws stand out as problematic. Even bugzilla here treated the entire thing as a link. :)
Comment 3 Ricardo Mones 2012-04-26 13:12:33 UTC
FWIW, mutt also stops parsing the URL at the first 8-bit illegal char, so not all sanity is lost ;-)
Comment 4 Pierre Ossman 2012-04-26 13:18:01 UTC
FYI, these URLs are sent out by vBulletin. Not sure if I've ever seen the problem anywhere else.