Some bugzilla users attempt to include HTML tags in their posts, for example, to link to another bug. They probably do this because they're used to slashdot- style linking, and assume that the automatic "Bug #10000" links in other people's posts are actually manual links. The problem isn't that bugzilla doesn't allow HTML posts, but that it messes up both the manual link and the automatic link (if the anchor text is like "Bug #10000") in this case so that other users must type the bug number manually (the horror :) Bug #31322 shows a few test cases and the results. Actual results: Bugzilla includes the > in the href and the anchor as part of the URL. Expected results: Link URL is underlined correctly (so it's clickable) but all tags are still shown as typed (so pasted html isn't destroyed). Anchors that are bug numbers are also linked to the bug number they refer to. Related: Bug #31323, bugzilla should warn users not to use html tags to format messages Bug #17452, RFE to allow bugzilla comments to be in html format (which probably won't be done)

*** Bug 31322 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

At least, correctly delimited URLs are recognized correctly now (IIRC, they wasn't a month ago): <http://www.mozilla.org>. Tnx terry! See RFC2396, for which chars are allowed in URIs. "<> (double quote and angle brackets) are never allowed. Proposed fix: There's no perl/XPCOM-gateway, is there? :-) Otherwise stop at the first of the above mentioned chars in all cases.

OK, fixed. URLs will now never contain ", <, or >. Bug #31322 now displays much nicer. (And no, I did not make any other recent changes to improve "correctly delimited URLs".)

Wow, fast and good fix.

Terry, can you make it also hyperlink things like <URL:resource:/res/samples/test0.html>?

David, did you try to add such a link to a webpage and open that link? I did try it, but I don't think, it will work, because anonymous content doesn't have access to local resources, IIRC.

I did *not* try it webpage = html page on a http server

You're right about that, but I'd still like to see the feature added to bugzilla because there are some links that should work, such as finger: links (see the first line of comments in bug 33132, and the url of bug 29952). By the way, you can open those links by right-clicking and selecting "open in new window". Just filed that as bug 35273.

tara@tequilarista.org is the new owner of Bugzilla and Bonsai. (For details, see my posting in netscape.public.mozilla.webtools, news://news.mozilla.org/38F5D90D.F40E8C1A%40geocast.com .)

This bug has not been touched for more than nine months. In most cases, that means it has "slipped through the net". Please could the owner take a moment to add a comment to the bug with current status, and/or close it. Thank you :-) Gerv

-> Bugzilla product, User Interface component, reassigning.

Uhm, is this solved or not? Could somebody please summarize what is to be done here so I can go and do it?

Jesse, Ben, you guys were the ones commenting after it was supposedly fixed before. What else still needs to be done? It's hard to tell from the comments.

Bug is fixed. It has been reopened by Jesse in April 2000 to add more URL schemes, but that is arguable not not exactly topic of this bug. Please open a new one for that. Marking FIXED again.