Re: Wiki problem with URLs

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.

Stefan