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I tried to add a comment that included this text:

https://username@password:www.mysite.com/mypath/

But it showed up like this:

username@password:www.mysite.com/mypath/

How can I prevent auto-hyperlinking in a comment?

The magic: (view edit (not source)) 

https://‎username@password:example.com/mypath/
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  • Like this: https://‎username@password:www.mysite.com/mypath/ ?
    – random
    Oct 5, 2009 at 13:00
  • Yes. Please post whatever you did as an answer.
    – Jeremy Stein
    Oct 5, 2009 at 13:05
  • @Stein Go into edit mode for your question and check out what's been added.
    – random
    Oct 5, 2009 at 13:08
  • like this? https://username@password:www.mysite.com/mypath/ -- just put it in a code block delimited by `
    – Jeff Atwood
    Nov 4, 2009 at 8:45
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    May 14, 2012 at 5:24

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Simply use the code `` delimiters

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The examples above use U+200E Left-to-Right Mark as a zero-width joining character to break up a sequence that would be spotted as a link otherwise. This is a bit dodgy IMO; directionality characters have a specific use and this isn't it. Although U+200E isn't one of the directionality characters described by W3/Unicode as discouraged for use in markup, there is an argument for stripping them out, as the ‘discouraged’ characters definitely should be.

I suggest U+200D Zero-Width Joiner instead. (Although, in practice I tend to use U+200B Zero-Width Space, since my keyboard makes it easy to type.)

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You're going to have to include some Unicode character that will be taken out by the parser and breaks the URL at the same time.

https://‎username@password:example.com/mypath/

Which kind of looks like this:

https://<hidden unicode here>username@password:example.com/mypath/
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