Auto_link escaping issues

Rails
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I’m calling auto_link on a block of HTML-escaped text. It is failing to
correctly link URLs that have multiple GET string variables.

For example:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=bugzilla&btnG=Google+Search

…is escaped to:

…which auto_link() links as:
<a href=“Google” name=“830_link”
target=“_blank”>Google

(here it is again w/o MY escaping since I’m not sure how this forum
escapes values [PREVIEW OPTION IS NEEDED])
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&;q=bugzilla&btnG=Google+Search

Has anyone run into this before? Short of not escaping HTML (which
isn’t an option) what can be done to fix this?

Thanks.

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Caleb Jones wrote:

For example:
bugzilla - Google Search

Well, it looks like this forum is doing this correctly. Any
ruby-forum.com dev’s out there that can explain how they are both
escaping HTML and calling auto linking URLs?

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Well, it looks like this forum is doing this correctly. Any
ruby-forum.com dev’s out there that can explain how they are both
escaping HTML and calling auto linking URLs?

I had the same problem. Here is a simplified version that worked for me:

    '<a href="' + link + '">' + link_text + '</a>'
  end
end

It doesn’t detect already linked URLs (I didn’t need it) but it allows a
wider range of URLs (ftp://…, for example) and works with HTMLized
URLs (…?foo=1&bar=2…) and some other special case original
version doesn’t seem to detect (Example Domain).

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