[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #40294: Activation link and reset password wrong parsing

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#40294: Activation link and reset password wrong parsing
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 Reporter:  AirFlame                |       Owner:
     Type:  defect (bug)            |      Status:  closed
 Priority:  normal                  |   Milestone:
Component:  Login and Registration  |     Version:  4.7.3
 Severity:  normal                  |  Resolution:  duplicate
 Keywords:                          |     Focuses:
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Comment (by AirFlame):

 Replying to [comment:8 johnbillion]:
 > Replying to [comment:7 AirFlame]:
 > > Try on o2.pl and You will not get normal link just a broken link that
 dont work because of that > in the code. People are having problems with
 it like in 5 years now. Do something about this... You want to force
 people to use gmail or yahoo not the mails that they are using ?
 >
 > Yes this is frustrating for you, but this is a bug in the email service
 provider which is not respecting web standards for URL handling. It's
 unreasonable to expect software to cater for other software which doesn't
 respect the most basic of web standards.
 >
 > In addition, bugs are present when the angle brackets are ''not'' in
 place, hence why they were introduced seven years ago in #14140.
 >
 > It would be more productive for you to get in touch with the email
 provider and ask them to correct their bug. The bug will affect ''all''
 software and services which send emails containing bracket-delimited URLs,
 not just WordPress.

 I understand but tell me for what hell is that < > ? If it cause problems
 for users that register to people wordpress ? They loose people because if
 someone cant register he will go away and never come back to that site.
 And funny thing is people dont know about this bug. And they are thinking
 why people register and dont enter and write. The bug cause people ban ips
 because they think bots are registering, it cause loss of space in db
 becasue new tables are created all the time. And waste of time for users
 that try to log in...

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