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
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.


Stefan