I lied.
Apostrophes are legitimate in URLs.
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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.
Jon B. - Mar 25, 2003 2:24:00 pm PST #3604 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
We don't control the content or format of URLs.
Yeah, I get that. I just meant that folks creating URLs shouldn't use them. I agree that we should try to make them work here if possible.
John H - Mar 25, 2003 2:56:12 pm PST #3605 of 10000
I can fix the URL code if someone can give me a verbal description of what it should do -- and of course show me the current version. I thought it worked by finding http colon slash-slash followed by [any number of characters as long as they're not whitespace] but obviously that's not so or we wouldn't have this problem.
EDIT: by verbal description I mean "it should match http colon slash-slash followed by any character in the following list" or "it should match http colon slash-slash followed by any character not in the following list"
Jon B. - Mar 25, 2003 3:09:10 pm PST #3606 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
The problem as I understand it is that the URL is delimited by single quotes, so if the URL has an apostrophe, it is read as the end of the URL.
John H - Mar 25, 2003 7:58:41 pm PST #3607 of 10000
The problem as I understand it is that the URL is delimited by single quotes, so if the URL has an apostrophe, it is read as the end of the URL.
That's not it, I'm almost sure.
The website is called something like Martha's Place, and the apostrophe appears in the document name so it's something like "blah.com/martha'splace.html" -- I must say I was really surprised that apostrophes are legal, and it's really not likely to come up very often.
EDIT: ita, can you post the regex that does it? I bet it's a simple fix.
§ ita § - Mar 25, 2003 8:14:01 pm PST #3608 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Here you go, John:
/(^|\\s)(https?:\\/\\/[^\\s]*)\\b(\\/?)/
Are spaces legal or no? How do we do on those? Also, was there a problem with _?
Jon B. - Mar 25, 2003 8:23:11 pm PST #3609 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
That's not it, I'm almost sure.
If you look at the html source code of the post as displayed, that's what's going on. What am I missing?
John H - Mar 25, 2003 8:57:27 pm PST #3610 of 10000
Sorry Jon, you're right, I'm wrong. So the problem could be fixed simply by changing the regex to wrap the URL in double quotes not single. Double quotes are definitely not allowed in URLs ... right?
I must admit I'm a bit shocked at the use of single quotes for HTML attribute values. Aren't there some browsers where that would be a big problem?