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The MozillaZine forums don't have this issue, and earlier versions of this board -- I think even after updating to phpbb3 -- didn't have this problem. Do the phpbb forums discuss this relatively new bug? Hasn't phpbb released a fix yet?Giorgio Maone wrote:It seems to be a well known phpbb3 issue
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123456789*123456789*123456789*123456789*123456789*12345|<--- 55 chars
http://www.123.xx19/123456789/123456789/123456789/12345
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123456789*123456789*123456789*123456789*123456789*123456789*|<--- 60 chars
http://www.123.xx19/123456789/123456789/123456789/123456789/
It's in the Metaforum. I've merged them.therube wrote: (I know this was discussed before but I'm not finding it.)
I can't find any mention of this particular problem on the phpbb site. This problem does not occur in any of the other forums I've tested it in:Giorgio Maone wrote:It seems to be a well known phpbb3 issue, and frankly I cannot see any reasonable solution that doesn't involve excessive messing with the original code.
A work-around is suggested here, i.e. wrapping long links in tags.
Edit: Thanks for reminding me that I can work around the problem in my posts with the [url] tag. It does not address the problem where the link is mangled in someone else's post. therube had to guess what url someone was using in this support topic.Alan Baxter wrote: I see it now. Just previewing the message an extra time or quoting it causes the incorrect shortened link to be used instead of the original one....
If I recall correctly, phpBB used to preserve the links correctly when being quoted or previewed a second time. Looks like a new bug to me. I'll provide steps to reproduce right here too:
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Note that this link is clickable, http://info.yahoo.com/privacy/us/yahoo/ ... tails.html
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http://info.yahoo.com/privacy/us/yahoo/ ... tails.html
Actual result: The link is mangled and becomes unclickable.
Expected result: The link is still clickable even though it's still displayed in its abbreviated form.
I'm sure this used to work. Even editing a post doesn't work correctly anymore.
Tom wrote: There is a known phpBB issue with long links being truncated, while short ones: www.example.com work fine.
Yes, the workaround is to use URL tags. It's PHP, not this forum, and is a known issue. Don't know if they intend to fix it.
That is the way I see it too, only here, & only relatively recently.Allan wrote: I can't find any mention of this particular problem on the phpbb site. This problem does not occur in any of the other forums I've tested it in:
http://... (<--- this is not broken, just the way I wrote it)
At this time, it appears to be a problem only on http://forums.informaction.com.