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Tagged with url-encoding bug
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URL ending in underscore is incorrectly converted
If an URL posted in a question or answer body ends in an underscore, then this underscore is cut off from the URL, which produces a broken link when saving the text. At the same time the preview ...
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Links in email from SE are weird
I contacted SE using the contact page recently. I got a reply.
This was a part of the reply:
Typically, the fastest way to address this sort of problem is to raise a flag on the post or comment (note ...
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Issue putting a URL with special characters [duplicate]
I am having difficulty placing the following URL in my post here, which if I copy and paste the link into my Google Chrome, it works perfectly fine.
https://www.dsprelated.com/freebooks/filters/...
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How do I make this URL ending in a period work in the comments?
With this URL:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Transform_LaTex_formulas_in_spoken_words_and_make_it_readable_with_text_to_speech_programs.
It is broken unless I add a \ to the end in ...
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Degree symbol breaks URL detector [duplicate]
This was originally posted on Travel Meta. I am reposting here to add visibility to the issue.
The URI detector breaks when it encounters a degree symbol (°) or U+00B9:
https://www.google.com.pe/...
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Bad Request - Invalid URL with Unicode in URL
There is a question on the Ru.SO that can't be opened (at least for me under Chrome and Edge) with HTTP 400 error:
I have made a dumb question on Meta.SE to reproduce this.
Question
Bad Request - ...
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Careers login redirects to a 404 error if original return URL had a query string
So, I had a message sent to me on Careers 2.0 today. Since I didn't happen to be logged in there, clicking the inbox link took me to the following page:
http://careers.stackoverflow.com/users/login?...
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How to Ask page doesn't correctly encode the question typed in the search field
The How to Ask page doesn't correctly URL encode the string typed in the search field. For example, if someone types "Objects in C++" in the search field and then clicks on the "proceed »" link below, ...
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Improper query escaping in the return URL after logging in
Something is causing my query search [javascript] -[php] votes:0 is:question to turn into javascript -php votes:0 is:question after signing in.
Steps to reproduce:
Make sure you are not connected
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return url doesn't get properly decoded after login
When accessing SO with a bookmark that has a list of tags separated by or, for instance:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/html%20or%20javascript?tab=newest&pagesize=50
When logging in ...
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When passing parameters via the URL, they are not properly decoded
By "not properly", I mean "not", apparently. Try this link, for example:
https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/65941?SearchString=accept+rate
Steps to reproduce:
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Bug with tags with plus in name
https://stackoverflow.com/tools/ shows that a tag named n+1 was created in the last 2 days. Clicking on the link for that tag takes one to a page showing "0 Questions tagged n 1"; it treats them as ...
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The Tweet This button drops punctuation that is perfectly tweetable
I just tweeted a link to this question What is the best C++ interview question? and the content had the two + signs (for C++) replaced with spaces. I edited it back to + signs, but I don't see why it ...
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URL shows differently on copy-paste
I tried to copy-paste the following google search url in comments:
http://www.google.com/codesearch?hl=en&lr=&q=lang:c+%22char+***%22&sbtn=Search
But it shows like this
http://www....
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After adding an interesting tag, the href is not URL encoded
I accidentally deleted my C# tag, but when I re-added it and clicked on it to get a list of questions tagged C#, I noticed the # was not URL encoded to %23, so I only saw questions tagged c.
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