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URLs containing punctuation not parsed properly

#1063

The new automatic URL parsing in plain-text messages seems to have some problems with URLs containing certain punctuation characters.

For example, here's a plain-text message I received from our Jenkins continuous integration server at my work. This one line is the body of the message (with slight alterations to the hostname and build name, for anonymity, but otherwise unchanged):

See http://jenkins.example.com/job/Product%20XXX-15642%20(UI%20Changes)%20Build/3/changes

MailMate only parses the URL up until the parentheses. By comparison, Apple Mail, BBEdit and other applications I've tried correctly interpret everything between the angle brackets as being the URL.

If you need the full original message for testing purposes, please let me know!

Reported by David Shepherdson · March 1st, 2015 @ 11:16 AM

State: bluesky
Milestone: none
Assigned to: benny benny

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  1. benny
    benny
    • State changed from new to bluesky

    I was able to reproduce it. It's a classic problem with URLs in text and I've fixed it to work for your and similar examples. The only problem is that it won't work if the URL ends with a ). This is a tricky special case which I'm postponing fixing indefinitely.

    March 2nd, 2015 @ 01:04 PM

  2. David Shepherdson
    David Shepherdson

    That sounds great -- thanks Benny!

    However, I notice that my original report may have been slightly misleading (so what you fixed was, I think, a more complicated case than I was intending to report!). I didn't realise that the Lighthouse site would parse and format the text I'd entered, meaning that the actual message containing the URL didn't come through as clearly as I'd expected.

    Now I understand that, here's the actual text I was trying to show:

    See <http://jenkins.example.com/job/Product%20XXX-15642%20(UI%20Changes)%20Build/3/changes>

    So in this case, what surprised me was that MailMate wasn't picking up that everything between angle brackets would be the URL -- I had anticipated that it would be a fairly straightforward fallback case of 'everything from the opening angle bracket to the closing angle bracket should be interpreted as part of the URL'.

    Just thought I'd better clarify this, in case it makes a difference to the implementation!

    Thanks Benny,

    David

    March 14th, 2015 @ 10:42 AM

  3. benny
    benny

    Thanks for the clarification, but it was a good thing that I fixed it for whether or not the brackets are present :-)

    March 14th, 2015 @ 02:20 PM

  4. Erik M-H
    Erik M-H

    So, Benny, is proper parsing of URLs ending in “)” still blue-sky?

    I ask specifically because I run into this about once a week in MailMate Markdown with Wikipedia article URLs, such as http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Imitation_Game_(play).

    March 18th, 2015 @ 03:21 PM

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