0009558: Url encoded urls in $g_manual_url fail to show properly - MantisBT

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update

0009558	mantisbt	feature	public	2008-08-20 19:10	2008-08-22 04:32

Reporter	rstens	Assigned To
Priority	normal	Severity	minor	Reproducibility	have not tried
Status	new	Resolution	open
Platform	Firefox 2.0.0.14	OS	Windows XP	OS Version	SP2
Product Version	1.1.2

Summary	0009558: Url encoded urls in $g_manual_url fail to show properly
Description	When entering a url encoded url in $g_manual_url in the config file, you would expect the link for User Documentation to work according to what you specified. However, this is not the case as Mantis somehow strips the % from the url and renders the url invalid. This is what url encoding is: http://www.blooberry.com/indexdot/html/topics/urlencoding.htm If you manually replace the encode values with the actual values thinking that this would work to then you are confronted with bug 0009370. One workaround that seems to work is to take your (long, encoded) url and create a tinyurl ( http://tinyurl.com/ ) and put that in your config file.
Steps To Reproduce	See above
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giallu 2008-08-21 02:32 reporter ~0019188	So, AFAICS we just need to port the fix for 0009370 to the stable branch?

rstens 2008-08-21 19:38 reporter ~0019198	No there are 2 issues: The encoded url issue that breaks the link 0009370 They are separate but related, my issue pertains to 1.

giallu 2008-08-22 04:32 reporter ~0019206	IMHO there should be no need to manually urlencode the link, as regular users could be completely unaware of what that means or imply. However, I'd expect any string you use for $g_manual_url to be properly urlencoded before being shown on the menu. Can you please show me an example of one not working?