[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #15070: WordPress cuts short links with "!"

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#15070: WordPress cuts short links with "!"
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 Reporter:  larysa       |       Owner:                   
     Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new              
 Priority:  normal       |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review  
Component:  Comments     |     Version:  3.1              
 Severity:  normal       |    Keywords:  URL comments link
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 Short links that have an exclamation point in the URLs [ "!" ] posted in
 comments are "cut" by the WP.

 For instance, WordPress cuts http://name.ly/!Bd$8N down to http://name.ly/

 Facebook and Twitter, for instance, handle such links correctly.

 As it is 100% legal URL syntax [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL ] to
 have "!" in the URL, such cuts are annoying.

 WP should not cut the URLs downto "!" character but parse it to the next
 space or new line character.

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Ticket URL: <http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/15070>
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