https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19411
Summary: External URL syntax cannot handle square brackets
Product: MediaWiki
Version: unspecified
Platform: All
OS/Version: All
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: Normal
Component: Page rendering
AssignedTo: [email protected]
ReportedBy: [email protected]
Older PHP frameworks sometimes use square brackets to pass whole arrays as GET
parameters. The external URL sytnax of MediaWiki cannot handle such links: for
example,
[http://www.danishliterature.info/index.php?id=2092&no_cache=1&tx_lfforfatter_pi2[stage]=1&tx_lfforfatter_pi2[uid]=109&tx_lfforfatter_pi2[lang]=_eng
Jørgen-Frantz Jacobsen]
should give
<a
href="http://www.danishliterature.info/index.php?id=2092&no_cache=1&tx_lfforfatter_pi2[stage]=1&tx_lfforfatter_pi2[uid]=109&tx_lfforfatter_pi2[lang]=_eng";>Jørgen-Frantz
Jacobsen</a>
but the actual result is
<a
href="http://www.danishliterature.info/index.php?id=2092&no_cache=1&tx_lfforfatter_pi2";>[stage</a>=1&tx_lfforfatter_pi2[uid]=109&tx_lfforfatter_pi2[lang]=_eng
Jørgen-Frantz Jacobsen]
Automatic URL have the same problem. Replacing [ and ] with %5B and %5D usually
helps, but is technically incorrect because these are reserved characters and
shouldn't be urlencoded (nor do most browsers urlencode them when you copy the
URL from the address bar), and it depends on the whim of the url processor
whether the urlencoded version will still point to the same resource.
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