1014674 - Underscore in Make.org domain malfunctioning??

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Webmaker Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Laura Hilliger [:epilepticrabbit]]

I think this is a bug, but have not tried to reproduce.

In our community call a Webmaker Trainee was trying to figure out why he was getting a 404 on: https://darren_alexander.makes.org/thimble/LTM1OTc5MjY0/darren-alexander 

he said "the make works fine, now secure, but linking to it goes 404--and yet it works even now"

I went digging and found:
https://darren_alexander.makes.org/thimble/NjQ3NDk1Njg=/darren-alexander
https://darren_alexander.makes.org/thimble/LTExOTg2NTM0NA==/darren-alexander

both of which worked for me. I sent them along, and he tried to post into the Training, but it's funky weird and doesn't link out. You can see it doesn't thumbnail:

http://discourse.webmakerprototypes.org/t/activity-1-introducing-ourselves-through-makes/246/74?u=laura

He pointed out that he has an underscore, possibly problematic in a URL, and I'm wondering if indeed, we are hitting a bug b/c of it.

Comment 1

[Jon Buckley [:jbuck]]

Yeah, some URL parsers don't accept _'s as valid characters. Twitter is another example of a site that doesn't accept _'s in the subdomain part either.

Comment 2

[Jon Buckley [:jbuck]]

I've filed a follow-up proposal to solve this issue by not allowing users to create their user accounts with underscores in the same. I'll mark this bug as closed, and we'll see what happens with my proposal.