[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #6218: Wordpress modifies URL data in href's

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#6218: Wordpress modifies URL data in href's
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 Reporter:  hexley   |       Owner:  anonymous
     Type:  defect   |      Status:  new      
 Priority:  normal   |   Milestone:  2.6      
Component:  General  |     Version:           
 Severity:  normal   |    Keywords:           
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 Data inside an href is changed, and I do not think under any case should a
 user entered url be changed unless outside an href.  Currently the &
 (ampersand) gets url encoded, as seen here:

 <a href="http://example.com/lists/?p=subscribe&#038;id=1">
 should be:
 <a href="http://example.com/lists/?p=subscribe&id=1">
 This of course pisses of a html validator.

 I think this is also wrong:
 <a href="http://example.com/wp-admin/post.php?action=edit&amp;post=119"
 title="Edit post">Edit This</a>

 As you can see, URL encode on the ampersand again.  While a browser
 recovers from this, the W3C expressly states you should only do this when
 you want to show an & on the page, not in a url that will end up in a
 browser.

 It is now making a lot of sense why some urls emailed to others are
 failing on OS X mail.app

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