On 8/18/06, Simetrical Simetrical+wikitech@gmail.com wrote:
True (album names, ugh). Note the following in Parser.php:
# Don't allow internal links to pages containing # PROTO: where PROTO is a valid URL protocol; these # should be external links. if (preg_match('/^(\b(?:' . wfUrlProtocols() . '))/', $m[1])) { $s .= $prefix . '[[' . $line ; continue; }Any reason that we explicitly ban pages from having titles that look like URLs?
Hmm, can't vouch for that, but I just tried this at another wiki, and the result was quite strange. I created a link to [[ http://test.com]]. I clicked the redlink and saved some text. At that point, the page was apparently renamed http:/test.com (note the missing slash), and I was told that that page was empty. Returning to the original page, my redlink is now blue, and definitely points to http://test.com However, clicking on it takes me to http:/test.com, which doesn't exist.
Oh, now here's fun. I repeated the experiment with [[ mailto:foo]]. This time, the link behaved as expected, and I was able to save text to the page "mailto:foo". I return to the original page, and click the blue link. Guess what happens? My mail editor opens...
Strangely, neither {{http://test.com%7D%7D nor {{mailto:foo}} works, but that could be a namespace issue, where it's treating http: and mailto: as the namespace, and for some reason deciding to tack template: on the front, or something.
Anyway, anyone believe me yet that these magic words are a bad idea? :)
Steve