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  1. Confluence Data Center
  2. CONFSERVER-28393

Links are not recognized as a link if the URL is not properly pre-encoded

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      NOTE: This bug report is for Confluence Server. Using Confluence Cloud? See the corresponding bug report.

      An attempt to enter a URL such as this:

      http://www.testconf.com?xml=<type="Request">test</type>

      Will result in an XML error such as the following:

      <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><status><status-code>500</status-code><message>com.atlassian.confluence.content.render.xhtml.XhtmlParsingException: The XML content could not be parsed. There is a problem at line 1, column 735. Parser message: Unexpected character &amp;#39;=&amp;#39; (code 61) excepted space, or &amp;#39;&amp;gt;&amp;#39; or &amp;quot;/&amp;gt;&amp;quot;&#xD;
 at [row,col {unknown-source}]: [1,735]</message></status>

      This becomes a problem during upgrade, especially if customers had such links in previous versions of Confluence.

      Workaround

      Manually convert special characters in the URL based on this mapping: http://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_urlencode.asp

      The URL above will be encoded to this: 

      http://www.testconf.com?xml=%3Ctype%3D%22Request%22%3Etest%3C/type%3E

      Attempting to workaround this by entering the link through Insert >> Wiki Markup results in a Wiki Markup conversion error with the same stack trace as above. In some cases, the page will not be saved at all until the link is fixed.

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          Bug - A problem which impairs or prevents the functions of the product. CONFSERVER-31415 Special Characters Entered into Link Macro Causes Link to be Converted to Text

          • Low - Low priority issues
          • Closed
          relates to

          Bug - A problem which impairs or prevents the functions of the product. CONFCLOUD-28393 Links are not recognized as a link if the URL is not properly pre-encoded

          • Medium - Medium priority issues
          • Closed

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