Also, one other bit of strangeness:
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{|
|
http://a|
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HTML output:
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<table>
<tr>
<td>" class='external free' title="http://a|"
rel="nofollow">http://a|</a>
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Note that somewhere along the line the Parser eats the '<a
href="http://a' string. Available online at
http://nickj.org/MediaWiki/Parser13
Similar to the above is this:
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{|
!https://||||||
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Which in MediaWiki 1.6.1 also eats the "<a href" part, giving:
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<table>
<tr>
<th>|||||" class='external free' title="https://||||||"
rel="nofollow">https://</th><th></th><th></th><th></a>
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Available online at
http://nickj.org/MediaWiki/Parser16 , and full
list at
http://nickj.org/MediaWiki
Also, I have no idea if multi-line HREF URLs should be allowed:
http://nickj.org/MediaWiki/Parser20 . It passes W3C validation, but
the link doesn't work (at least in Firefox), so I can't decide if it
should be considered wrong or not.
I must say though, it seems to me that 1.6.1 has improved a lot on the
Parser areas that could potentially have a security impact as compared
to 1.5.8.
All the best,
Nick.