Create Post bug, weird formating if linked url has two dashes in a row

[bobmorris60]

I've found what I think is a weird bug in the editor in WP. Basically, if you create a link in a post, and the url to the link has two dashes in a row, it mangles the post, adding the text after the link to the top of the post as well as under it. Seriously... What's odder, the post looks fine in the editor, but is mangled in the preview window and when it appears on the blog.

This is repeatable in both WordPress.org and WordPress.com. It happened to me in versions previous to 2.1, and took me quite a while to figure out.

An example, this url (note the two dashes) created a mangled post in the editor when creating a link with it.

​http://www.dott07.com/blog/index.cfm/2007/2/5/Doors-of-Perception-9--Juice

I then used tinyurl for that url and the post then displayed fine. There's at least one news site (I forget which) where the urls always end with two dashes and I always have to use tinyurl.

Can anyone else duplicate this?

[andy]

Just tested against trunk with the dott07 link provided above. No problems.

[bobmorris60]

Someone else said that too. No clue then... Thx.

Take it off suspected bug list

[intoxination]

I have seen this bug in action on WP2.1. The problem is that it seems to be intermittent. The original poster contacted me regarding this yesterday and I could get it to happen in 2.1. I tried again today and it didn't happen. Seems to be one of those nightmare intermittent problems. This was on IE7.

What happened was when entering that URL, Wordpress stripped out the entire URL and changed the link to ​http:/// (it added the exta/closing slash).

Today I would mark this as invalid if I didn't see it myself yesterday.

[andy]

I would love to help you with a fix for this, intoxication, but you have given me no new information to help me reproduce the problem. Reopen if you can provide something.