Details
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Type:
Bug
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Status: Resolved
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Priority:
Medium
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Resolution: Fixed
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Affects Version/s: 4.0, 4.1, 5.0.1, 5.1.3, 5.3, 5.6.4, 5.7.1, 5.8.13, 5.10
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Fix Version/s: 6.0.3
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Component/s: Editor - Page / Comment Editor
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Symptom Severity:Major
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Support reference count:27
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Epic Link:
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Sprint:Galaxy - before the innovation, Galaxy - BBQ party, Galaxy - next
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Testing Notes:
- inserting a link with the link macro
- inserting a link by pasting on the page
- inserting a link then changing the text later
- illegal characters
- characters not allowed by storage format parser
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Occurrence Factor:25%
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QA Demo Status:Done
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QA Kickoff Status:Done
Description
NOTE: This bug report is for Confluence Server. Using Confluence Cloud? See the corresponding bug report.
Symptoms
Any time a URL contains a character that is invalid as per the URI RFC, or one of a small set of valid characters ("*", "[", "]", "'", " ' "), the link will fail to save correctly. The link will appear on the page, but not clickable. The anchor tag is empty and the URL is not saved into the BODYCONTENT table.
Similar behavior occurs when inserting an image from the web with an URL containing an invalid character. While the image renders in edit mode, upon saving the page there will be a red "Broken Image" placeholder.
Steps to reproduce:
- Click Link > Web Link tab
- Insert an URL with an invalid character. For example: http://www.google.com/* (this is a bogus URL)
- Click Insert
- Save page
Workaround:
Use an encoded entity in the format "%<hexit><hexit>" (reference) in place of the invalid character when injecting the URL.
OR a simpler way would be:
- Go to Google Shortner at https://goo.gl/
- Paste the URL
- Google will generate a short url for your URL which you will be able to link.
- Google will also be change your long URL to alphanumeric characters, which can also be saved.
Attachments
Issue Links
- causes
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CONFSERVER-47899 When posting an answer to a question, URLs with apostrophe's are incorrectly truncated
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- Open
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CONFSERVER-45966 Links containing umlaut or cyrillic characters become invalid
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- Resolved
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- is a regression of
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CONFSERVER-12687 Links to URLS containing caret character are not recognised as links
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- Resolved
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- is duplicated by
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CONFSERVER-32954 Use of the apostrophe in anchor causes linking issue
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- Open
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CONFSERVER-26412 Links with asteriks won't render as a clickable link
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- Resolved
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CONFSERVER-26664 Links with apostrophe in them (') break
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- Resolved
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CONFSERVER-24879 Some long URLs not recognised by Confluence
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- Resolved
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CONFSERVER-25097 Links containing ^ character not recognised when typed into the editor
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- Resolved
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CONFSERVER-26279 Links containing bracket characters not recognised when typed into the editor
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- Resolved
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CONFSERVER-26771 UNC link with a single quote doesn't work
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- Resolved
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CONFSERVER-27064 Wikipedia links with apostrophes in the page titles do not paste as links for some users
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- Resolved
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CONFSERVER-27126 Attachments with plus signs in name not downloadable
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- Resolved
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CONFSERVER-30246 Links with Apostrophe in it can not be inserted
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- Resolved
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CONFSERVER-34929 Inserting a link with an apostrophe produces no link and no error
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- Resolved
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CONFSERVER-38274 Confluence doesn't like some valid hyperlinks
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- Resolved
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- is related to
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CONFSERVER-25097 Links containing ^ character not recognised when typed into the editor
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- Resolved
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CONFSERVER-26279 Links containing bracket characters not recognised when typed into the editor
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- Resolved
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- relates to
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CONFCLOUD-24320 Links and web images with URLs containing certain non-alphanumeric characters fail to save
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- Open
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CONFSERVER-31239 Problem with links in Confluence
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- Open
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CONFSERVER-32421 URLs to Confluence pages containing apostrophes do not autoconvert
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- Open
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CONFSERVER-18594 URLs containing pipes are truncated
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- Resolved
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CONFSERVER-32258 Chrome locks up when pasting URL into editor
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- Resolved
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CONFCLOUD-53652 Confluence doesn't save long links
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- Resolved
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JRASERVER-45789 Links with URLs containing certain non-alphanumeric characters fail to save
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- Verified
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- mentioned in
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