[rt-devel] RT breaks *very* long URL's.

[Jesse Vincent]

Interesting. Text::Wrapper isn't supposed to break words that don't 
fit on one line.  The best place to play around with this is
WebRT/html/Ticket/Elements/ShowTransaction.  you might want to try
switching the order of the URL escaping and the text wrapping.
If that works, I'll happily make the switch in my sources.

	-j


On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 06:05:44PM +0100, Frank Reppin wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> at first i want to emphasize that this project is
> really great ... thanks to all those people developing it :)
> 
> Actually we are using version 2.0.11 here and everything
> works very, very fine. So far, so good.
> 
> While playing around during the implementation process i
> figured out a kind of 'optical' bug in ShowTransaction - 
> at least ... i think that the reasonable code is located
> there (i am still going through the whole code).
> 
> This optical misbehaviour is easy to reproduce.
> 
> feel free to download a screenshot from my /pub:
> 
> ftp://amazone.boerde.de/pub/RT2/rt-devel.jpg
> 
> or simply create a ticket (either via mailgateway) or
> by hand in your own RT.
> 
> As long as the URL's length is =< 72 characters (including
> the http:// part of it ofcourse) there's no problem
> from the 'ShowTransaction' code displaying it properly.... but
> as soon as it gets longer than 72 characters the substitution
> in 'ShowTransaction' in line 43 doesn't work as expected.
> The URL gets broken there, because the <A HREF> tag will be
> closed after these 72 characters.... 
> 
> [ShowTransaction located in /rt2/WebRT/html/Ticket/Elements]
> 
> I tried several things to have a workaround for it. In special
> i removed line 43 completely .... forcing my staff-members to
> cut/paste the URL manually. But i think that there must be a better
> solution to get around this 'optical misbehaviour'.
> So I also played with the <PRE> tag in lines 55-57 ... but the
> solution wasn't acceptable at all - since it looked quite ugly then -
> at least it worked as expected then....
> 
> So my question to the devel-list is if,
> 
> 	Am I the first one recognizing this - erm - 'bug' ? (i won't call
> 	call it a 'bug' at all - since it only affects very long URL's)
> 	or is this just mentioned somewhere (digging in the mailinglist
> 	didn't gave me some hints on this) ?
> 
> 
> Friendly regards,
> 
> Frank Reppin
> 
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