126359 - Composing a message with "news:" causes hyperlink to be created

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(MailNews Core :: Composition, defect)

Description

[Mark]

When I compose a message using Mozilla 0.9.8, a hyperlink for a news group is
created prior to sending.  (Also visible if you 'save' and look in the Drafts
folder.)  This happens when anyone types "news:".  If the following character is
a space or tab, the URI will be to a newsgroup which does not have any value
(NULL).  This probably should be fixed because it's not visible to the user
unless they save a draft and review the message prior to sending.

Comment 1

[Mark]

To produce this, in a mail message type:
     Company news:<tab> February 5, 2001
Save the message and review in Mozilla's Drafts folder.  A URI for "news:// /"
will be created.  (Could be sent in this form which could look unprofessional.)

Comment 2

[[e-mail] (gone - use [e-mail] instead)]

Yup, I see this with build 2002-02-18-03 on Windows 2000, but only if I
introduce tab.

news://  / is what the actual link is, and <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="news:&nbsp;&nbsp;">news:&nbsp;&nbsp;</a> &nbsp;

is the style we apply to that node.

Comment 3

[Jean-Francois Ducarroz]

Using Mozilla RC1, I am not able to reproduce this problem. WFM

Comment 4

[Mark]

I just tried it on the same Mozilla 1.0 RC1 and still see the same issue.

Looking at it further, using the <SPACEBAR> does not reproduce this issue.  It
looks like if there's a space after the colon it's not an issue but using the
<TAB> key does modify the text to a URI.

Comment 5

[[e-mail] (gone - use [e-mail] instead)]

Build ID: 2002-05-08 Windows 2000 Commercial 1.0 Branch.

JFD - I still see this using the following message:

Company News:<tab>test

re-opening.  BenB (beonex.com) might have assistance here?

Comment 6

[Jean-Francois Ducarroz]

ok, I see the problem...

Comment 7

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

I'm not able to reproduce this symptom.  I'm assuming this is about composing in the HTML compose window, but there doesn't seem to be a way to actually stuff a <tab> character in there; typing <tab> results in three spaces.  
I tried using Alt+0009 and still got the same three-spaces inserted.  Neither do I see this with the  &#9;  entity.

The plain-text URL recognizer only triggers on 'news:' if it's followed by alphanumeric or certain punctuation, but not if followed by whitespace (or period).