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Profile "About" parses URL ending in ")" incorrectly

Dan Cornett

February 01, 2013 16:39

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When a URL ends with a ")", it gets stripped off the link (that is, it is treated as if it where a "]") -- this occurs in the text of the "About" of a profile.

I have not checked if the same is true for a Project's "Description" field.

Here is an example profile: http://www.geni.com/people/Sir-John-Mundy-Knt-Lord-Mayor-of-London/6000000010018532821 ... and the corresponding Wikipedia link that "breaks" in the "About": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Mundy_(mayor)

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  John Dale Kessel January 13, 2016 10:52

  I see it looks like you figured it out when i looked at John Mundy's page...  

   

  I just ran into this today... Here is a tip for anybody else that runs into this: It is possible to swap out the ")" with "%29"

  I imagine the same would be true for these other reserved characters mentioned here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percent-encoding#Percent-encoding_reserved_characters