Description

If you create an attachment or a ULR link that has a closing parenthesis before the dot in the file name, the link on the page stops early.

Steps to reproduce

1. create a file with the name foo(rev1.0).doc
2. upload the file as an attachment to the page

3. create the attachment: link on the page.

4. look at the link

or

1. edit a page and paste in ftp://ftp.org/Minutes(6-14-06).doc in 1.6 this renders correct.

2. look at the "link" created on the page

Example

Component selection

• general

Details

Workaround

• Write the Link differently: [ftp://ftp.org/Minutes(6-14-06).doc Minutes(6-14-06).doc] (1.5)

• Write the Link differently: [[ftp://ftp.org/Minutes(6-14-06).doc|Minutes(6-14-06).doc]] (1.6)

• Minutes(6-14-06).doc

• or even simpler: [ftp://ftp.org/Minutes(6-14-06).doc] (1.5)

• or even simpler: [[ftp://ftp.org/Minutes(6-14-06).doc]] (1.6)

• ftp://ftp.org/Minutes(6-14-06).doc

Discussion

If we would "fix" that so that filenames don't terminate at ")", you would get "wrong" behaviour in cases like this

See the file on our ftp server (ftp://ftp.org/Minutes2006-12-12.doc). In 1.6 this renders correct as of 2007-12-22.

It is fixed by new link syntax in 1.6.

• IMHO the best thing to do here would be: Require that URLs containing certain unreserved characters (like parentheses and asterisk—cf. RFC 2396, sec. 2.3) are put into brackets ([[]]), or these characters are escaped as described in section 2.4 of RFC2396 (e.g. ftp://example.org/Minutes%286-14-06%29.doc → ftp://example.org/Minutes%286-14-06%29.doc ). This is similar to what we require for links containing spaces (http://example.org/%20something.txt → http://example.org/%20something.txt or [[http://example.org/ something.txt]] → http://example.org/ something.txt). -- MartinBayer 2007-11-17 23:26:10

Plan

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• Status: behaviour was changed in 1.6. problems can be also worked around by new link syntax of 1.6

CategoryMoinMoinBugFixed

Related issue(s): MoinMoinBugs/1.6LinksNotTerminatedOnRightParenthesis