Cannot make this hyperlink show correctly in a post.

[hexef]

I am trying to link this GECK article about detection: "http://geck.bethsoft.com/index.php?title=Category:Detection#Detection_Events" like this:

[url=http://geck.bethsoft.com/index.php?title=Category:Detection#Detection_Events]GECK Article[/url]

On this forum it looks like this:

 

GECK Article

 

But on the commenting section of my mod page it looks like this:

 

etection#Detection_Events">GECK Article

 

In both places I've used the exact same code I provided above, what gives?

 

I am talking about this post in my mod's comment section, at the end first paragraph, Link.

[DrakeTheDragon]

Hmm, what I can see there is an Emoticon in the middle of the url, right at where it breaks:

:D

This could lead to it breaking on the file sites for some reason.

 

Did you try it with a properly encoded url parameter by chance instead?

http://geck.bethsoft.com/index.php?title=Category%3ADetection#Detection_Events

Nowadays' browsers are (imho) too forgiving with those non-RFC-standard-compliant urls in address bars, people completely forget not every other environment also accepts them when typed that wrong, or don't even know it's wrong to begin with.

 

In this case, however, I think the Emoticon system of the file sites is more to blame here.

[hexef]

Replacing the : with %3A did the trick for me. I had no idea that conventions like encoded url parameters even existed. That explains why the URL on a google search has so many %20s instead of spaces. Today I learned something new I suppose.

 

Did some research about this subject and found this web page which contains all the encoded characters: https://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_urlencode.asp.

 

Thanks for the help.

Edited June 27, 2017 by xqdcss