[Mediawiki-l] Trouble adding external link using MediaWiki:Sidebar page

[Brion Vibber]

Patricia Barden wrote:
> I'm having trouble adding a link to the navigation bar using the
> MediaWiki:Sidebar page.
> 
> The format for adding an external link is:
> 
> http://www.somelink.com |Somelink
> 
> The problem is that, in my case, the external address has a pipe
> character in it:
> 
> https://www.groundspring.org/donate/index.cfm?ID=2344-0|1118-0 |Donate

That's not a legal URL according to the spec. You'll need to escape the '|'
character according to the rules in RFC 3986 §2.1 "Percent-Encoding".

http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3986.html

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)

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