Forums Bug Reports URL Regex with Square Brackets

It appears as if the regex/function used to find URLs in messages and make them clickable doesn't deal well with square brackets in the path.

For example, if the following appears in a message:



...then any part of the URL including and after the first square bracket is not parsed:



Personally, the best URL regex I've used is this one here, and it's got an MIT license so it could be used in mIRC as-is:

https://gist.github.com/dperini/729294

Thanks!

Sounds like https://forums.mirc.com/ubbthreads.php/topics/239225/IPv6_literals_in_URLs_not_reco ?

As per the specification, square brackets must be encoded in the 'query' part of the URL. As such, your example is not a valid URL, and any source that generates such a URL is in violation of the specification.

Edit: just to be clear, the thread linked to by KindOne shows that there is a bug here nonetheless.