Re: Wiki problem with URLs

On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 07:57:14PM +0100, Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote:
> On 01/27/2013 01:02 AM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > While trying to add a Gmail URL to our TODO wiki:
> >
> > https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Todo
> >
> > I found that URLs that contain equal signs are being silently not
> > displayed by the wiki. For example, this existing TODO entry:
> >
> > {{TodoItem
> > |Allow VIEW/RULE recompilation when the underlying tables change
> > |This is both difficult and controversial.
> > * [http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2009-12/msg01723.php Re: About "Allow VIEW/RULE recompilation when the underlying tables change"]
> > * [http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2009-12/msg01724.php Re: About "Allow VIEW/RULE recompilation when the underlying tables change"]
> > --> * [http://archives.postgresql.org/message-id/CACk=U9NFSzWrEba8G5dZ=TZLy3_hx3QXGyCcKVWT=4iA1FjMuA@mail.gmail.com VIEW still referring to old name of field]
> > }}
> >
> >
> > I would love to give you a URL to that section, but "Views / Rules" is
> > not clickable on Firefox on my machine --- you have to scroll down. You
> > will see the text display is:
> >
> > Allow VIEW/RULE recompilation when the underlying tables change
> >
> > The second line is missing, as well as all the links. I believe it is
> > the last link which contains an equals sign that is causing the problem,
> > based on my experiments.
> >
> > A fix need to be found, and all URLs with equal signs fixed.
>
>
> well this seems to be a URL encoding issue - replacing the = with a %3D
> fixes the problem.

So the only known fix is to hand-edit URLs to use %3D? That doesn't
seem very good. Do we need to move the TODO list somewhere else?

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