[wp-hackers] Clickable links filter on FTP hostnames

[chris mccoy]

You could remove the filter, then add your own custom without the ftp
parsing.

Ive never seen people link to ftp via blogs ftp://etc



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[mailto:wp-hackers-bounces at lists.automattic.com] On Behalf Of David Anderson
Sent: December 14, 2012 1:14 PM
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Subject: [wp-hackers] Clickable links filter on FTP hostnames

There's a default filter in WordPress (which eventually is found in the
function _make_web_ftp_clickable_cb in wp-includes/formatting.php), which
takes anything matching "<space>ftp.(the rest)" and turns it into a
hyperlink beginning with http://

This seems very wrong. It was wrong for me. It turned a line in which I was
listing an FTP server:

Host: ftp.example.com

into this which gives an HTTP link and hence is wrong and/or gibberish:

Host: <a href="http://ftp.example.com" 
rel="nofollow">http://ftp.example.com</a>

I can't think of why you'd want, by default, to add http:// to detected
hostnames beginning with "ftp." . But before I file a bug in Trac, does
anyone know why that bit of code is in there (and on by default)? Am I
missing something?

David

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