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
whenthe underlying tables change"]
 
> >     * [http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2009-12/msg01724.php Re: About "Allow VIEW/RULE recompilation
whenthe underlying tables change"]
 
> > -->    *
[http://archives.postgresql.org/message-id/CACk=U9NFSzWrEba8G5dZ=TZLy3_hx3QXGyCcKVWT=4iA1FjMuA@mail.gmail.comVIEW still
referringto 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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