New subject: [Mediawiki-l] filepath parser function is escaping the colon in the url to :

20 Sep 2010


      I have been breaking my head about this.
But when I use the {{filepath:someimage.png|nowiki}} in a page, it
will generate the full URL, but with the colon in the "http://" part
escaped to &#58; . I am passing this URL to a Widget and really need
the exact string to be used in CSS. For now I am simply using a
replace-assign in the Widget to unescape the colon again.
But I noticed that on MediaWiki.org itself the colon doesn't seem to
be escaped. I wonder why it doesn't happen there, but does for me.
Example: http://armeagle.nl/mediawiki/index.php/ColonTest (will not
stay up forever, so the code is below too - though you'll have to
upload or use your own image of course).
Version info:
MediaWiki  	1.16.0
PHP 	5.2.6-1+lenny8 (apache2handler)
MySQL 	5.0.51a-24+lenny4-log
Any help is much appreciated,
ArmEagle
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<pre>
{{filepath:Pbmap_icons.png|nowiki}}
</pre>
Will generate the following:
<pre>
<p>http&#58;//armeagle.nl/mediawiki/images/d/da/Pbmap_icons.png
</p>
</pre>
I expect it not to escape the colon in the url. For some reason this
does not seem to happen on http://www.mediawiki.org/. I am trying to
figure out how I can prevent this from happening.
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Actual usage of <nowiki>{{filepath:Pbmap_icons.png|nowiki}}</nowiki>:
{{filepath:Pbmap_icons.png|nowiki}}

filepath parser function is escaping the colon in the url to &#58;

filepath parser function is escaping the colon in the url to :