[wp-hackers] Clickable links filter on FTP hostnames

[David Anderson]

There's a default filter in WordPress (which eventually is found in the 
function _make_web_ftp_clickable_cb in wp-includes/formatting.php), 
which takes anything matching "<space>ftp.(the rest)" and turns it into 
a hyperlink beginning with http://

This seems very wrong. It was wrong for me. It turned a line in which I 
was listing an FTP server:

Host: ftp.example.com

into this which gives an HTTP link and hence is wrong and/or gibberish:

Host: <a href="http://ftp.example.com" 
rel="nofollow">http://ftp.example.com</a>

I can't think of why you'd want, by default, to add http:// to detected 
hostnames beginning with "ftp." . But before I file a bug in Trac, does 
anyone know why that bit of code is in there (and on by default)? Am I 
missing something?

David

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