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Mingle altering img src attribute and breaking URI

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Mark Crossfield
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I've tried to embed an img tag in a Mingle wiki page by specifying the HTML for the image as below:

<img src="http://some-server.co.uk/*.*" />

Mingle unfortunately mangles the URI when this is presented, such that this appears as the HTML:

<p>img<img src="http://some-server.co.uk/<strong>.</strong>&#8221; /&gt;</p></p>

This obviously doesn't work. Apart from the extra p tags the URI has been altered and the HTML is not valid. It seems to be the *.* part of the URI that causes the problem, as this:

<img src="http://some-server.co.uk/" />

produces this (valid) HTML:

<p><img src="http://some-server.co.uk/" /></p>

This is preventing me from showing a useful dashboard of metrics presented using the api of an external system within the wiki.

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    David Rice

    Hi Mark -


    You can embed images in Mingle using the following syntax:


    !http://some-server.co.uk/!

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    Mark Crossfield

    Hi David


    Thanks for the reply. I'm aware I can include images using that format, but unfortunately I have the same problem. It does appear to cope with the contrived example I included, but not with what I'm actually trying to do. The following Mingle code reproduces the error I'm seeing, which now seems to be related to the bracket:


    !http://some-server.co.uk/(!


    comes out as:


    <p>!http://some-server.co.uk/(!</p>


    rather than


    <img src="http://some-server.co.uk/(" />


    I appreciate that this is an unlikely URI - you'll have to trust me that the URI I want to use includes brackets :)


    Cheers, Mark


     

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    David Rice

    Hi Mark -


    Parens are indeed legal in a URL. There must be a parsing bug in Mingle.


    As a work around, can you try using the URL-encoded forms -- %28 for left paren, %29 for right ?


    My quick test shows that Mingle renders this correctly.

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