Links that contain @ symbol break all bbc in given post

[Koda]

Hello, I have been trying to figure out this issue on and off for a little while now, and think I have isolated it down to a single trigger.  Previous post can be seen here with mods installed and more info: http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=541528.0

My website is hxxp://phytoactive.net (replace xx with tt)

Basically everything works great except when I post a link to a website that has an @ code in the url.  say:

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https://www.flickr.com/photos/146862050@N05/
will be converted automatically into
http://[url]https://www.flickr.com/photos/146862050@N05/[/url]

Additionally, all links in the same post will be changed into the broken format.

I did remove the @members module I had installed but the links still break.  Any ideas?

[Kindred]

I see a numbe rof answers regarding this... but that one that I would think sounds the most accurate is

Can you use the @-symbol in a URL? - Yes, you can!

Note that that @-character, hexadecimal value 40, decimal value 64, is a reserved characters for URI's. It's usage is for things like email-addresses in mailto:URI's, for example mailto:[email protected] and for passing username and password information on a URI (which is a bad idea, but possible): http://username:[email protected]

If you want a URL that has an @-symbol in a path you need to encode it, with so called "URL-encoding". For example like this: http://somewhere.foo/profile/username%40somewhere.foo

All modern browsers will display this as http://somewhere.foo/profile/[email protected], and will convert any typed in @-sign to %40, so it's easy to use.

Many web-frameworks will also help you either automatically, or with helper-functions, to convert to and from URL-encoded URL's.

So, in summary: Yes, you can use the @-symbol in a URL, but you have to make sure it's encoded, as you can't use the @-character.

in other words, that URL is not fully valid per the URI specifications

[Koda]

Is there any workaround?  A few fairly large sites use @ symbols in their urls, including the following:

medium.com and flickr, but I am sure I have seen the issue with other websites as well.

Do the links work on this forum?  Let's see: https://www.flickr.com/photos/146862050@N05/

Doesn't break here, maybe I am misreading your post a bit.  On my forum the link would be converted to this:

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http://[url]https://www.flickr.com/photos/146862050@N05/[/url] where it would take you to a non-working url.

[Illori]

which version of SMF are you using?

[Koda]

2.09

[Koda]

Here is the list of mods I have installed:

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1. Bad Behavior mod 1.5.18 [ Uninstall ] [ List Files ] [ Delete ]
2. Embed Tumblr BBCode 2.2 [ Install Mod ] [ List Files ] [ Delete ]
3. @mention members 1.1.2 [ Uninstall ] [ List Files ] [ Delete ]
4. PDF Tag 1.2 [ Uninstall ] [ List Files ] [ Delete ]
5. Glossary 0.3.1 [ Uninstall ] [ List Files ] [ Delete ]
6. VBBIS - VBulletin Board Index Style 1.9.3 [ Install Mod ] [ List Files ] [ Delete ]
7. SMF 1.1.20 / 2.0.9 Update 1.0 [ List Files ] [ Delete ]
8. Add [list][li] Button 1.0 [ Uninstall ] [ List Files ] [ Delete ]
9. SimplePortal 2.3.6 [ Uninstall ] [ List Files ] [ Delete ]
10. Prevent Adding Signature Images And Links 2.0 [ Uninstall ] [ List Files ] [ Delete ]
11. SMF 2.0.8 Update 1.0 [ List Files ] [ Delete ]
12. Force Topic Read On Login Mod 2.1 [ Uninstall ] [ List Files ] [ Delete ]
13. AWSP - Add WebSite Permission 1.4.3 [ Uninstall ] [ List Files ] [ Delete ]
14. Premiumbeat Flash MP3 Player 2.0.1 [ Uninstall ] [ List Files ] [ Delete ]
15. Contact Page 3.2 [ Uninstall ] [ List Files ] [ Delete ]
16. Socialize 1.8 [ Uninstall ] [ List Files ] [ Delete ]
17. Wiki Links 1.1 [ Uninstall ] [ List Files ] [ Delete ]
18. Ad Managment 3.2 [ Uninstall ] [ List Files ] [ Delete ]
19. Default Avatar 2.3 [ Uninstall ] [ List Files ] [ Delete ]
20. Tapatalk SMF 2.0 Plugin 4.3.0 [ Uninstall ] [ List Files ] [ Delete ]
21. Ohara YouTube Embed 1.2.4 [ Uninstall ] [ List Files ] [ Delete ]
22. Google Tagged 2.0 [ Uninstall ] [ List Files ] [ Delete ]
23. Add Social Media Icons To Profiles 1.2.0 [ Uninstall ] [ List Files ] [ Delete ]
24. Soundcloud BBcode 1.6 [ Uninstall ] [ List Files ] [ Delete ]
25. SMF 1.1.21 / 2.0.10 Update 1.0 [ Uninstall ] [ List Files ] [ Delete ]
26. SA Shop 1.0 RC1 [ Install Mod ] [ List Files ] [ Delete ]
27. Embed Tweet BBCode 1.1.1 [ Install Mod ] [ List Files ] [ Delete ]
28. Signature Area BBCode Buttons 2.0.3 [ Uninstall ] [ List Files ] [ Delete ]
29. Search Focus Dropdown 1.6.1 [ Uninstall ] [ List Files ] [ Delete ]
30. Embed Facebook BBCode 2.13 [ Install Mod ] [ List Files ] [ Delete ]
31. Expanding & Collapsing Spoiler Tag 1.10 [ Uninstall ] [ List Files ] [ Delete ]
32. Optimus Brave 1.8.7 [ Uninstall ] [ List Files ] [ Delete ]
33. FAQ Tags 0.1 [ Install Mod ] [ List Files ] [ Delete ]
34. Wikipedia BBC 1.0.1 [ Uninstall ] [ List Files ] [ Delete ]
35. APImage 0.3.1 [ Uninstall ] [ List Files ] [ Delete ]
36. Related Topics 1.401 [ Uninstall ] [ List Files ] [ Delete ]
37. Anti-Spam Links 1.0.1 [ Uninstall ] [ List Files ] [ Delete ]
38. Moderator and Administrator Comment Tags 1.8.1 [ List Files ] [ Delete ]
39. Expanding & Collapsing Off-Topic Tag 1.8 [ Uninstall ] [ List Files ] [ Delete ]
40. SMFBlog 2.0 [ Uninstall ] [ List Files ] [ Delete ]
41. Misc Anti Spam 1.0 [ Uninstall ] [ List Files ] [ Delete ]
42. Pretty URLs 1.1.2 [ Uninstall ] [ List Files ] [ Delete ]
43. SA Facebook 3.1 [ Install Mod ] [ List Files ] [ Delete ]
44. RIAST: Remove Index & Add Smart Title 1.3.0 [ Uninstall ] [ List Files ] [ Delete ]
45. Add [nobbc] button 1.1 [ Uninstall ] [ List Files ] [ Delete ]
46. Customize *Child Board* 2.7 [ Uninstall ] [ List Files ] [ Delete ]
47. BBC Permission Mod 1.0 [ Install Mod ] [ List Files ] [ Delete ]
48. SMFShop 3.3.2 [ Install Mod ] [ List Files ] [ Delete ]
49. Social Login 3.4 [ Uninstall ] [ List Files ] [ Delete ]
50. Embed Instagram BBCode 1.9 [ Install Mod ] [ List Files ] [ Delete ]

Attached is my subs.php file.  Thank you for the assistance.

[Kindred]

well...  first and foremost, you need to upgrade to 2.0.13

You are four revisions behind, including some bug fixes and security updates