Edit Message Problem with URLs

[ndee]

I posted that some "ASP" pages couldn't get linked, remember? I found the bug. Try this:

Write a message, use "Auto parse URLs" of course, and post a link. Now edit the message and insert another link(so that it should be recognized by the URL-Parser). Notice something?

 

[ndee]

bump

 

[Lord Evermore]

okay

http://asp.asp.com/asp.asp

http://asp.asp.com/asp.asp

 

[Lord Evermore]

Ooh, slightly weird. I wonder...

http://www.anandtech.com

http://www.anandtech.com

 

[Lord Evermore]

HAH, not just a bug with ASP pages.

 

[Lord Evermore]

One more test:

http://www.anandtech.com

 

[ndee]

you need an URL, then edit again and make again an URL

 

[narzy]

http://www.somesite.com
http://www.someothersite.com
http://www.adifferentsite.com/asp/index.asp
http://www.adifferentworld.com/jsp/somepage_onthissite_in_jsp.jsp
EDIT: http://www.fusetalk.com

 

[narzy]

herm seems to work fine here.

 

[Viper GTS]

Theory...

http://www.anandtech.com/
http://www.cnn.com/

Well, my theory as to why it's happening is wrong but it's definitely there.

Viper GTS

 

[Lord Evermore]

It's simple, and apparently was brought up during the beta testing and this is actually the SOLUTION to the problem. Originally if you edited a post with a link, the auto-parser would reparse the already parsed link. So you'd end up with a link within a link within a link. So they just made it so that on editing, the auto-parsing doesn't happen, it leaves any existing links as they were and any new links don't get parsed.

I don't really understand why it wouldn't be simple to make the edit function only parse the new links, since it's obvious which ones haven't been parsed yet (no L /L tags), and when you make a new post with both an unparsed link and a link using the button for text/link, it parses the regular link without affecting the already tagged link. (This was brought up in the beta as well but never got answered as far as the person I was talking to saw.)