In my third comment to this Stack Overflow question, I put in (one explicit, manually formatted link) and two URLs to other SO questions. Since the amount of characters in a comment is quite limited, and since I had to squeeze three links into that comment, I shortened these links to https://stackoverflow.com/questions/<ID>
. (One of them has a superfluous /
at the end.)
For reasons I don't understand, markdown failed to turn them into links. Note that markdown did not fail on marking code
.
I have checked both links to be valid by copy-pasting them into my browser's address bar. There's nothing wrong with them.
I have also tried these links in test comments (which I deleted afterwards), and they both work fine there. Another test revealed that the sentence that contains them ("I've tagged What is the member variables list after the colon in a constructor good for? and C++, What does the colon after a constructor mean? as c++-faq
."), posted as its own comment, will have the URLs turned into links, too.
What could I have done wrong to make this fail?
http://stackoverflow.com/q/210616
: stackoverflow.com/q/210616. Thanks, I didn't know that!