[wp-trac] Re: [WordPress Trac] #6737: TinyMCE converts relative links incorrectly (adds wp-admin)

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#6737: TinyMCE converts relative links incorrectly (adds wp-admin)
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 Reporter:  Otto42                 |        Owner:  azaozz
     Type:  defect                 |       Status:  new   
 Priority:  high                   |    Milestone:  2.5.2 
Component:  TinyMCE                |      Version:  2.5   
 Severity:  critical               |   Resolution:        
 Keywords:  2nd-opinion has-patch  |  
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Comment (by Otto42):

 Replying to [comment:8 lloydbudd]:
 > Otto42, can you provide steps to reproduce the problem y'all are
 discussing?

 Sure. Create a non-root relative link in a post. Like
 href="bobs/yer/uncle". TinyMCE will convert it into
 href="http://example.com/blog/wp-admin/bobs/yer/uncle", when you really
 wanted href="http://example.com/blog/bobs/yer/uncle".

 This gets a lot of confused users on the support forums, who complain that
 it used to work correctly. Admittedly, they should not be using relative
 links in the first place, because with pretty permalinks those are
 unreliable to begin with, however if TinyMCE is going to convert those to
 full links, it should at least make a better guess about it than assuming
 the files are in the wp-admin directory.

 > Off hand it seems like a stretch to lump this into "correct invalidly
 nested XHTML automatically". What is invalid about the XHTML?

 I agree that it is a stretch. The XHTML is valid, but the resulting link
 itself is not. But I don't think that it's worth adding another option.
 The idea behind using that option is that you're basically giving
 permission to "fix up" your invalid posts, and if you turn it off, then
 most likely you want it to leave your (potentially broken) relative links
 alone.

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