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Quote from: Gleb Gamow on May 17, 2016, 04:18:01 PM

Quote from: ibminer on May 16, 2016, 08:19:48 AM

Quote from: alani123 on May 16, 2016, 05:02:16 AM

I just noticed that if a URL contains brackets, it breaks linking.

You could use this one as an example:
https://www.whattomine.com/asic?utf8=%E2%9C%93&factor[sha256_hr]=1155.0&factor[sha256_p]=590.0&scryptf=true&factor[scrypt_hash_rate]=400.0&factor[scrypt_power]=1400.0&factor[cost]=0&sort=Profitability24&volume=0&revenue=24h&factor[exchanges][]=&factor[exchanges][]=bittrex&factor[exchanges][]=bleutrade&factor[exchanges][]=btc_e&factor[exchanges][]=bter&factor[exchanges][]=c_cex&factor[exchanges][]=cryptopia&factor[exchanges][]=poloniex&factor[exchanges][]=yobit&dataset=&commit=Calculate

Easiest solution on your end would be:

Left square bracket: [
Right square bracket: ]

new url:

Code:

https://www.whattomine.com/asic?utf8=%E2%9C%93&factor[sha256_hr]=1155.0&factor[sha256_p]=590.0&scryptf=true&factor[scrypt_hash_rate]=400.0&factor[scrypt_power]=1400.0&factor[cost]=0&sort=Profitability24&volume=0&revenue=24h&factor[exchanges][]=&factor[exchanges][]=bittrex&factor[exchanges][]=bleutrade&factor[exchanges][]=btc_e&factor[exchanges][]=bter&factor[exchanges][]=c_cex&factor[exchanges][]=cryptopia&factor[exchanges][]=poloniex&factor[exchanges][]=yobit&dataset=&commit=Calculate

EDIT: grue's way is better! I thought I was giving you the corresponding html entities but I wasn't, bad google search and not enough thought, the URL will still work but encoding the url is what should be done.

I'm not sure which part of the post the meme is intended but I think I've cleared up my post now Tongue

If your questioning why the URL you posted doesn't work, hover the mouse over the link and look in the status bar, it will not be the full URL, and the values will not be accurate on the site.

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Quote from: ibminer on May 16, 2016, 08:19:48 AM

Quote from: alani123 on May 16, 2016, 05:02:16 AM

I just noticed that if a URL contains brackets, it breaks linking.

You could use this one as an example:
https://www.whattomine.com/asic?utf8=%E2%9C%93&factor[sha256_hr]=1155.0&factor[sha256_p]=590.0&scryptf=true&factor[scrypt_hash_rate]=400.0&factor[scrypt_power]=1400.0&factor[cost]=0&sort=Profitability24&volume=0&revenue=24h&factor[exchanges][]=&factor[exchanges][]=bittrex&factor[exchanges][]=bleutrade&factor[exchanges][]=btc_e&factor[exchanges][]=bter&factor[exchanges][]=c_cex&factor[exchanges][]=cryptopia&factor[exchanges][]=poloniex&factor[exchanges][]=yobit&dataset=&commit=Calculate

Easiest solution on your end would be:

Left square bracket: [
Right square bracket: ]

new url:

Code:

https://www.whattomine.com/asic?utf8=%E2%9C%93&factor[sha256_hr]=1155.0&factor[sha256_p]=590.0&scryptf=true&factor[scrypt_hash_rate]=400.0&factor[scrypt_power]=1400.0&factor[cost]=0&sort=Profitability24&volume=0&revenue=24h&factor[exchanges][]=&factor[exchanges][]=bittrex&factor[exchanges][]=bleutrade&factor[exchanges][]=btc_e&factor[exchanges][]=bter&factor[exchanges][]=c_cex&factor[exchanges][]=cryptopia&factor[exchanges][]=poloniex&factor[exchanges][]=yobit&dataset=&commit=Calculate

EDIT: grue's way is better! I thought I was giving you the corresponding html entities but I wasn't, bad google search and not enough thought, the URL will still work but encoding the url is what should be done.

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Quote from: deepceleron on May 17, 2016, 12:18:49 PM

If a URL contains brackets, then the webmaster is a dummy.

Quote from: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1738#page-3

Unsafe:

Characters can be unsafe for a number of reasons. The space
character is unsafe because significant spaces may disappear and
insignificant spaces may be introduced when URLs are transcribed or
typeset or subjected to the treatment of word-processing programs.
The characters "<" and ">" are unsafe because they are used as the
delimiters around URLs in free text; the quote mark (""") is used to
delimit URLs in some systems. The character "#" is unsafe and should
always be encoded because it is used in World Wide Web and in other
systems to delimit a URL from a fragment/anchor identifier that might
follow it. The character "%" is unsafe because it is used for
encodings of other characters. Other characters are unsafe because
gateways and other transport agents are known to sometimes modify
such characters. These characters are "{", "}", "|", "\", "^", "~",
"[", "]", and "`".

All unsafe characters must always be encoded within a URL. For
example, the character "#" must be encoded within URLs even in
systems that do not normally deal with fragment or anchor
identifiers, so that if the URL is copied into another system that
does use them, it will not be necessary to change the URL encoding.

I certainly wouldn't go contacting every webmaster doing this telling them that it's a bad practice. Brackets in URLs aren't that common but it'd be better for the forum to fix this, not allowing URLs to be broken so easily. Not that it's an urgently needed fix, but more of an aesthetic/time saving feature.

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If a URL contains brackets, then the webmaster is a dummy.

Quote from: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1738#page-3

Unsafe:

Characters can be unsafe for a number of reasons. The space
character is unsafe because significant spaces may disappear and
insignificant spaces may be introduced when URLs are transcribed or
typeset or subjected to the treatment of word-processing programs.
The characters "<" and ">" are unsafe because they are used as the
delimiters around URLs in free text; the quote mark (""") is used to
delimit URLs in some systems. The character "#" is unsafe and should
always be encoded because it is used in World Wide Web and in other
systems to delimit a URL from a fragment/anchor identifier that might
follow it. The character "%" is unsafe because it is used for
encodings of other characters. Other characters are unsafe because
gateways and other transport agents are known to sometimes modify
such characters. These characters are "{", "}", "|", "\", "^", "~",
"[", "]", and "`".

All unsafe characters must always be encoded within a URL. For
example, the character "#" must be encoded within URLs even in
systems that do not normally deal with fragment or anchor
identifiers, so that if the URL is copied into another system that
does use them, it will not be necessary to change the URL encoding.

grue

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The proper way is to url encode it. Your url would encode to:

Code:

https://www.whattomine.com/asic?utf8=%25E2%259C%2593&factor%5Bsha256_hr%5D=1155.0&factor%5Bsha256_p%5D=590.0&scryptf=true&factor%5Bscrypt_hash_rate%5D=400.0&factor%5Bscrypt_power%5D=1400.0&factor%5Bcost%5D=0&sort=Profitability24&volume=0&revenue=24h&factor%5Bexchanges%5D%5B%5D=&factor%5Bexchanges%5D%5B%5D=bittrex&factor%5Bexchanges%5D%5B%5D=bleutrade&factor%5Bexchanges%5D%5B%5D=btc_e&factor%5Bexchanges%5D%5B%5D=bter&factor%5Bexchanges%5D%5B%5D=c_cex&factor%5Bexchanges%5D%5B%5D=cryptopia&factor%5Bexchanges%5D%5B%5D=poloniex&factor%5Bexchanges%5D%5B%5D=yobit&dataset=&commit=Calculate

You can do it within your browser's developer console by using

Code:

encodeURI("your url here")

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In some forums using quotes within the url tag (e.g. [ur.l="bitcointalk.org"]) will make it appear correctly even if the url have square brackets Maybe theymos can do that.

Quote from: ibminer on May 16, 2016, 08:19:48 AM

using link shorterners (with no ad) would be easier.

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Quote from: alani123 on May 16, 2016, 05:02:16 AM

I just noticed that if a URL contains brackets, it breaks linking.

You could use this one as an example:
https://www.whattomine.com/asic?utf8=%E2%9C%93&factor[sha256_hr]=1155.0&factor[sha256_p]=590.0&scryptf=true&factor[scrypt_hash_rate]=400.0&factor[scrypt_power]=1400.0&factor[cost]=0&sort=Profitability24&volume=0&revenue=24h&factor[exchanges][]=&factor[exchanges][]=bittrex&factor[exchanges][]=bleutrade&factor[exchanges][]=btc_e&factor[exchanges][]=bter&factor[exchanges][]=c_cex&factor[exchanges][]=cryptopia&factor[exchanges][]=poloniex&factor[exchanges][]=yobit&dataset=&commit=Calculate

Easiest solution on your end would be:

Left square bracket: [ %5B
Right square bracket: ] %5D

new url:

https://www.whattomine.com/asic?utf8=%E2%9C%93&factor[sha256_hr]=1155.0&factor[sha256_p]=590.0&scryptf=true&factor[scrypt_hash_rate]=400.0&factor[scrypt_power]=1400.0&factor[cost]=0&sort=Profitability24&volume=0&revenue=24h&factor[exchanges][]=&factor[exchanges][]=bittrex&factor[exchanges][]=bleutrade&factor[exchanges][]=btc_e&factor[exchanges][]=bter&factor[exchanges][]=c_cex&factor[exchanges][]=cryptopia&factor[exchanges][]=poloniex&factor[exchanges][]=yobit&dataset=&commit=Calculate

Code:

https://www.whattomine.com/asic?utf8=%25E2%259C%2593&factor%5Bsha256_hr%5D=1155.0&factor%5Bsha256_p%5D=590.0&scryptf=true&factor%5Bscrypt_hash_rate%5D=400.0&factor%5Bscrypt_power%5D=1400.0&factor%5Bcost%5D=0&sort=Profitability24&volume=0&revenue=24h&factor%5Bexchanges%5D%5B%5D=&factor%5Bexchanges%5D%5B%5D=bittrex&factor%5Bexchanges%5D%5B%5D=bleutrade&factor%5Bexchanges%5D%5B%5D=btc_e&factor%5Bexchanges%5D%5B%5D=bter&factor%5Bexchanges%5D%5B%5D=c_cex&factor%5Bexchanges%5D%5B%5D=cryptopia&factor%5Bexchanges%5D%5B%5D=poloniex&factor%5Bexchanges%5D%5B%5D=yobit&dataset=&commit=Calculate

EDIT: grue's way is better! I'm an idiot for putting the crossed-out url above. I usually don't lookup the values and should have just used the urlencode() function to get the url but it seemed easier to lookup the values at the time, and I ended up on a site giving special characters. MY BAD! Grin

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I just noticed that if a URL contains brackets, it breaks linking.

You could use this one as an example:
https://www.whattomine.com/asic?utf8=%E2%9C%93&factor[sha256_hr]=1155.0&factor[sha256_p]=590.0&scryptf=true&factor[scrypt_hash_rate]=400.0&factor[scrypt_power]=1400.0&factor[cost]=0&sort=Profitability24&volume=0&revenue=24h&factor[exchanges][]=&factor[exchanges][]=bittrex&factor[exchanges][]=bleutrade&factor[exchanges][]=btc_e&factor[exchanges][]=bter&factor[exchanges][]=c_cex&factor[exchanges][]=cryptopia&factor[exchanges][]=poloniex&factor[exchanges][]=yobit&dataset=&commit=Calculate

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