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I am running the Discussion Forum 2.1.2. I am able to use the [IMG} tag to display images in-line, but I needed to set the following:

Text Formatting in Posts: XHTML
HTML Formatting in Posts: Allow only safe HTML
Auto-convert URLs and email addresses into links?: Yes
Allow Image Hot linking?: Yes

There appears to be a bug (or maybe it’s part of the Safe HTML or XHTML formatting):

If the URL used in the [IMG] tag contains %2O in it, the %2O is converted to a space when the post is saved. The URL that is created when the post is displayed ends at the space, so the image is not displayed correctly. See this post:

http://www.btbff.com/index.php/btbff/RunForum/viewthread/473/

I guess this would apply to any character entities that included in a URL?

Are you getting the same results with “Allow all HTML”? Generally it is, of course, best to avoid spaces in URLs. If they are used they must be URL-encoded; the problem is that EE converts these encoding back as a security measure.

Are you getting the same results with “Allow all HTML”? Generally it is, of course, best to avoid spaces in URLs. If they are used they must be URL-encoded; the problem is that EE converts these encoding back as a security measure.

Agreed, I wish I could control the user-created URLs. That said…PhotoBucket’s URL generator is correctly converting embedded character entities into the “%XX” form for the URLs they give users to post in their e-mails and forums.

The problem appears to be that when that URL in embedded in the EE Discussion Forum Message window and saved, the save process is converting it to the character (a blank space, in this case), even if “Allow all HTML” is enabled.

When I go back in to edit the post, I find the %2O is converted to a space.

I’ve tried several different text formatting options as well, no luck.

Seems like the save process should leave the “safe” character entities “as is” when they’re in a URL?

Can you show us the exact code you’re trying to use?

Can you show us the exact code you’re trying to use?

I can try…in the following URL (shown inside the CODE and IMG tags), the spaces between “Test”, “Album” and “1” were actually input as the (sorry if I am using the wrong terminology) URL-encoded form of the character ” ” (i.e. %-2-0, without the dashes)

<a href="http://i897.photobucket.com/albums/ac175/jhloo/Test">http://i897.photobucket.com/albums/ac175/jhloo/Test</a> Album 1/083.jpg

http://i897.photobucket.com/albums/ac175/jhloo/Test Album 1/083.jpg

I saved the post, then editted it again, and the %-2-0s have been replaced with spaces.

I can reproduce the problem with both versions of the forum. I suspect it has to do with the   being cleaned too aggressively. As to whether or not it’s a bug, I’ll ask the dev team. Thanks in advance for your patience.

I can reproduce the problem with both versions of the forum. I suspect it has to do with the   being cleaned too aggressively. As to whether or not it’s a bug, I’ll ask the dev team. Thanks in advance for your patience.

If this is of any value…the reason that this came up is that the person posting the Photobucket URL was able to successfully post the link to 2 other forums running XMB. I can also post the same link successfully to 3 other websites, but I don’t know the forum engine they are running.

Thanks!

Can you add this as a defect? It’s an issue in both 1.x and 2.x. The link for the 2.x bug list is in my signature. And please post back here with a link to the bug report.

Can you add this as a defect? It’s an issue in both 1.x and 2.x. The link for the 2.x bug list is in my signature. And please post back here with a link to the bug report.

OK, DOne! Here’s the link…

https://support.ellislab.com/bugs/detail/12693/

Although I noticed that the editor used in the bug tracker did not have this issue…different tool?

Hi Drydocked,

Thanks for the report. You should receive notifications as the issue is updated.

Cheers

Greg