Forum issue with long URLs

[Smithcraft]

If you paste a long URL into your post, it gets abbreviated when the post is posted.

If you edit the post after it's been posted, the URL is still abbreviated and now no good.

Could it be set to not abbreviate long URLs?

SC

[Woodstock]

The issue is that some URLs aren't parsed "correctly" if they aren't marked as being URLs.

How do you mark it as a URL? The simplest way is to use the URL tag. Paste the URL into the message. Highlight the COMPLETE URL. Click the " URL " button above the editor window. What you see in the editor will look something like this:

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[url]http://long.urlcode.tld/IsFoundHere/[/url]

Example looks like this:

http://long.urlcode.tld/IsFoundHere/

If you want to make it prettier, you can use the URL tag a bit differently. Write your sentence describing the link. Highlight some key word(s) within it, click the URL button, then do a bit of editing on the first tag. You'll change the first tag to add an equals sign, then the URL itself, so it would look like this:

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You put the [url=http://long.urlcode.tld/IsFoundHere/]description here[/url] and the link will be more like a regular web link it when displayed

Example looks like:

You put the description here and the link will be more like a regular web link it when displayed

(if you're like me, you type these tags automatically... too many years of being a phpBB administrator...)

[Smithcraft]

I am familiar with the system(notice my sig). However, sometimes I would rather post a URL than come up with a name for it and add the tags. Sometimes I would rather not have to mouse over a link to see what the URL is.

I see I am not the only one that does this, so I think it would be more beneficial if the forum didn't abbreviate long URLs.

SC

[setarip_old]

(If I remember correctly) Right click the url and select "Save target as" rather than "Copy"

[Smithcraft]

???

SC

[Woodstock]

That's where the URL tag, without modification, comes in handy. The phpBB URL parser is not quite capable of handling EVERYTHING that can occur in a URL, which is why it screws up sometimes. Big offender? URLs with parens in them, which your browser doesn't properly escape when you paste them in - every ( and ) SHOULD be pasted in as %28 and %29, or the URL is broken already. Your browser will "fix" is if it is typed in that way, but no guarantees if you click on it...

Any non-alphanumeric symbon on this list should be escaped in a URL, and it if it isn't, count on the phpBB URL parser to screw the URL up if you don't help it.

Wrapping it with the URL tag bypasses (most of) the parsing, so it will make the whole thing appear.

[Smithcraft]

Ugh. I am aware that phpBB has problems with some characters in URLs, however, this problem doesn't crop up on any other phpBB forum that I'm. Just this one.

SC