[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #16859: Square brackets are removed from links in blogroll

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#16859: Square brackets are removed from links in blogroll
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 Reporter:  f00f          |       Owner:
     Type:  defect (bug)  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal        |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  General       |     Version:  3.1
 Severity:  minor         |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  2nd-opinion   |
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Comment (by f00f):

 Replying to [comment:1 ldebrouwer]:
 > To achieve this we would need to alter esc_url which I'm pretty sure is
 not going to happen because URLs containing brackets shouldn't be floating
 around and should always be encoded!

 Is it possible to wrap a urlencode() around the URL before escaping it?
 Didn't have a look at the code yet, so don't know if that makes sense.

 > If you take a look at the URL spec ( http://www.w3.org/Addressing/URL
 /url-spec.txt ) you can read:
 >
 > [...]

 True (wasn't aware of that, thanks).
 However, the PHP FAQ suggests using square brackets for form fields to
 create arrays ( http://www.php.net/manual/en/faq.html.php#faq.html.arrays
 ). Also, a similar problem came up in ticket:12690, so I thought it might
 be interesting.

 > I don't know if you've copied the URL from somewhere but the brackets
 definitely shouldn't be there.

 The URL is generated by the (IMHO popular) tt_news extension for Typo3.

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