#35533: urlize() makes a bit of a mess of links embedded in Markdown
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Reporter: Simon Willison | Owner: nobody
Type: Bug | Status: new
Component: Utilities | Version: 5.1
Severity: Normal | Resolution:
Keywords: | Triage Stage: Unreviewed
Has patch: 0 | Needs documentation: 0
Needs tests: 0 | Patch needs improvement: 0
Easy pickings: 0 | UI/UX: 0
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Comment (by Simon Willison):
The ideal output for this example would be:
{{{
Annotated versions of talks I have given, with extensive notes and
additional links. Here's [how I make these](<a
href="https://simonwillison.net/2023/Aug/6/annotated-presentations/";
rel="nofollow">https://simonwillison.net/2023/Aug/6/annotated-
presentations/</a>).
}}}
Alternatively, not URLizing at all would be preferable to URLizing in a
way that produces broken links.
I think what's happening here is the logic that looks for non-protocol
links that include or end in .net may be kicking in, and deciding that the
following is the URL that should be linked:
{{{
these](https://simonwillison.net/2023/Aug/6/annotated-presentations/)
}}}
It's hard to suggest a fix for this. Ideally the code would "notice" that
`these](https://simonwillison.net/2023` is not a valid URL, but instead
the logic is deciding that it's probably valid but should have `http://`
glued on the start.
Maybe we could have code that notices that
`http://these](https://simonwillison.net/2023/Aug/6/annotated-
presentations/)` is NOT a valid URL - you cannot have `](` in the middle
of the hostname portion - and hence decides not to URLize it at all.
(Background: the reason I'm seeing this is that my Django SQL Dashboard
software tries to URLize text it displays, but has no way of knowing if a
database column contains Markdown - this broken example came from
https://simonwillison.net/dashboard/tags-with-descriptions/ )
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