[#CONF-9299] Tiny Link can generate URLs ending with punctuations (which outlook doesn't like)

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Tiny Link can generate URLs ending with punctuations (which outlook doesn't like)

Created: 27/Aug/07 01:36 PM Updated: 12/Nov/07 06:26 PM

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Linking

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Fix Version/s:

2.6.2

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CONF-9635 System Error when accessing via a TinyURL that ends with a dash

Participants:	Agnes Ro [Atlassian], arantius, Jim Helwig and Paul Curren [Atlassian]
Since last comment:	41 weeks, 4 days ago
Resolution Date:	12/Nov/07 06:26 PM
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The "tiny link" for email feature built into confluence is super useful, thank you for it. Unfortunately, it is now generating links like:

http://wiki.mydomain.com/x/_4M-

Paste that link into outlook and it will fail to auto-link the hyphen, linking just:

http://wiki.mydomain.com/x/_4M

Which doesn't work. Supremely non-useful. I wrote a script to create and delete a page automatically, as confluence appears to be cycling through values, but I've gone through hundreds and I'm not past the hyphens yet.

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Jim Helwig added a comment - 17/Oct/07 12:18 PM

I see this problem as well. I randomly clicked through the Confluence wiki, trying to find a tiny link with a trailing hyphen, but have not located one yet. Again, some email clients do not recognize a trailing '-' as part of the link. When you email these tiny links, recipients complain that the link does not work.

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Agnes Ro [Atlassian] added a comment - 08/Nov/07 09:33 PM

I have just checked the code, and it is possible for '-' characters to be included in the tiny url.

However, the hyphen seems to be a valid character for urls without encoding. What email client are you using?

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Agnes Ro [Atlassian] added a comment - 08/Nov/07 11:23 PM

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arantius added a comment - 09/Nov/07 08:36 AM

I see this behavior with both Microsoft Outlook and Mozilla Thunderbird.

Though they both properly link a hyphen in the middle of a URL, they do not link a hyphen at the end. Probably part of some logic to skip punctuation like a period that doesn't belong in the URL.

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Agnes Ro [Atlassian] added a comment - 11/Nov/07 04:53 PM

This problem has been fixed by appending an extra slash at the end of the URL if it ends in a punctuation.
*Tested on both outlook and thunderbird.