URL parsing

[Steven]

Is there something different about URL parsing. There is a difference between the Preview version and the version in a post?

 

[Jeff]

It should be the same. Can you give me an example?

 

[Steven]

It should be the same. Can you give me an example?

This code

Sky News Article

when I preview it comes out as

Sky News Article

but when it is in the post it comes out as

sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-13537405,00.html" target="_blank">Sky News Article

It is in General Chat the Pluto thread

 

[Jeff]

This is a problem that's been mentioned several times before. It's because there's a bug in the auto linking program, which messes up urls which contain an auto-link keyword. So for a url to sky.com, the bit that says 'sky' will be turned into an automatic link to sky, which breaks the url.
The easy way to get round this problem would be to prefix a link with "from Sky:" for example, because the auto linking only happens the first time the word appears in a post.