On my blog (http://sig.levillage.org/) equipped with Wordpress 0.72, when someone posts a comment containing an HTML link with an URL containing an ampersand, this URL gets mangled... Some characters (like the &) seem to be systematically escaped. IMO, this is a bug (not a feature). The escaping function should not escape ampersands in URL when the URL is a value of a tag attribute. What do you think ? Did I miss something ? Is there currently a workaroung ?
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Ampersands escaped in URLs within comments (5 posts)
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Anonymous
Posted 5 years ago # -
Ampersands in URLs SHOULD be encoded because if they aren't it violates the W3C specs. If it did something seriously funky it could be a bug though, if you could point te the comment in question we could help you better.
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Yeah, you want those ampersands escaped, otherwise it'll bugger up your RSS feeds (XML really doesn't like unescaped ampersands)
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Posted 5 years ago #OK. I apologize for my post above. Wordpress properly handles ampersands in URL. But ... it mistakenly suppress the string "ID=" when it appears in some URLs (in comments). I have set an example here : http://sig.levillage.org/index.php?p=386&c=1
As you will see, I wanted to make a link toward http://www.dmreview.com/master.cfm?NavID=193&EdID=7438
But the URL appeared as http://www.dmreview.com/master.cfm?Nav193&Ed7438 instead.
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Trust me.... if you want that (X)HTML W3C validation... ampersands need to be escaped out. I had bee struggling with that problem for some time. When the browsert gets it, it will return the escaped doe back to it's proper character.
TG
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