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Ampersands escaped in URLs within comments
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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OK. Let’s go. Let’s suppose I want to make a link to query on Google. This query means I am searching for the word « wordpress » and I want the first 100 results to be displayed. The URL of this query is http://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=wordpress . Here is link I make to this URL. Are the ampersand properly escaped ?
Yes, they do. But why was this link to http://www.dmreview.com/master.cfm?Nav193&Ed7438 not handled properly as Vincent said in his comments ?
Wow, I must have not been fully awaked when I read Vincent comments ! Indeed, he did not say the ampersand characters were not properly handled. He rather noticed that the « I D = » substring of the URL he linked to unproperly disappeared (I had to add spaces between I D and = in order to make it appear here)! WordPress is nice with ampersands but definitely not with « I D = » in URLs. Wow, it appears that WordPress even suppresses « I D = » when it not within an URL.
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