> On Oct 23, 2009, at 2:16 PM, Brion Vibber wrote:
>
>> I've got Meitar's redent-button branch merged and running on my test
>> site
>> […]
>> I do notice a couple of issues though:
>>
>> 1) The original message is wrapped in quotes, which looks good and
>> is clear... but triggers a bug in our URL detection.
>>
>> If the URL includes a path (even just "/") the final quote character
>> ends up included in the link, leading to link breakage.
>
> This seems to me like a bug in the link detection regex. AFAIK,
> quotation marks should never be a part of a URI because they should
> always be embedded as '%22'.
>
> So…is there a separate bug open for that? I couldn't find an open one
> at http://status.net/bugs/ I'm not a regex sorcerer, but I can at
> least take a look at it if it'll help this patch get accepted. (I
> really, really want a repeat button in the web UI…it'll save so much
> time.)

According to the RFC, you're right: URLs cannot have " in them. But,
unfortunately, in real life, people use "'s in URLs. For that reason, I
allow them - but perhaps I should change that?

~Craig

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