Bug 2652 - URL parser not aggressive enough
Summary: URL parser not aggressive enough
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: Claws Mail (GTK 2)
Classification: Unclassified
Component: UI/Message View (show other bugs)
Version: 3.8.0
Hardware: PC Linux
: P3 normal
Assignee: users
URL:
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2012-04-26 07:05 UTC by Pierre Ossman
Modified: 2012-04-26 11:18 UTC (History)
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Description Pierre Ossman 2012-04-26 07:05:05 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 07:42:14 UTC
It stops at the 
Comment 2 Pierre Ossman 2012-04-26 08:42:57 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 11:12:33 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 11:18:01 UTC
FYI, these URLs are sent out by vBulletin. Not sure if I've ever seen the problem anywhere else.

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