Auto-link editing apparently can't handle embedded spaces and quotation marks. See
for an example.
Simon: You are my beautiful sister. River: I threw up on your bed. Simon: Yep. Definitely my sister.
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Betsy HP - Mar 25, 2003 12:56:22 pm PST #3594 of 10000
If I only had a brain...
Deena - Mar 25, 2003 1:04:39 pm PST #3595 of 10000
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara
I just got this error message when trying to post in Bitches:
March 25, 2003, 3:03 pm Deena[545]: ERROR [2] Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2) line 72 of file /home/buffist/public_html/classes/giles.php
March 25, 2003, 3:03 pm Deena[545]: ERROR [2] MySQL Connection Failed: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2) line 72 of file /home/buffist/public_html/classes/giles.php
Jon B. - Mar 25, 2003 1:27:43 pm PST #3596 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Auto-link editing apparently can't handle embedded spaces and quotation marks.
I don't understand Betsy. What can't you do?
Hil R. - Mar 25, 2003 1:42:15 pm PST #3597 of 10000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
What can't you do?
If you look at the link in Deborah's post, it ends with /Marta's_Journal.html, but if you mouseover and look at the page it actually links to, it ends in /Marta. The code that automatically converts a URL into a link cuts it off at the apostrophe.
Am-Chau Yarkona - Mar 25, 2003 1:53:35 pm PST #3598 of 10000
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty
IIRC, at some point this was discussed and it was considered that URLs didn't have apostrophes in them. Back in this thread quite some way. Would that be what's causing this problem?
Jon B. - Mar 25, 2003 1:55:30 pm PST #3599 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Thanks Hil. Since when are apostrophes allowed in URLs? I'm going to be a snob and say that our code is fine; the URL should change. I dislike spaces in URLs too. Those %20's drive me nuts.
Betsy HP - Mar 25, 2003 1:56:41 pm PST #3600 of 10000
If I only had a brain...
I've certainly never seen a URL with an apostrophe in it before, but I'm too zonked to go check the standard.
Betsy HP - Mar 25, 2003 1:58:29 pm PST #3601 of 10000
If I only had a brain...
Jon B. - Mar 25, 2003 2:03:25 pm PST #3602 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Thanks for the research Betsy. I still don't like 'em because they're going to cause trouble in places. Not just here. Why take the chance?
Betsy HP - Mar 25, 2003 2:21:21 pm PST #3603 of 10000
If I only had a brain...
Because they are legal in URLs, which means that people will post URLs containing them. We don't control the content or format of URLs.