Autolinking URLs adds a trailing </p>

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When adding a URL without explicitly creating a link (just type URL, no use of square/round braces), a trailing </p> is added to the pointed-to address, rendering the link invalid. I've seen this happen when commenting answers. It seems to not happen when asking a question. You can find an example post where the problem occurs here:

answers.ros.org/question/171071/jointpositioncontroller-state-erroneous-error

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Adolfo Rodriguez T

asked 2014-06-03 02:28:18 -0600

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Here is an example showing that this bug also affects Ask Askbot here. The wikipedia page for Askbot is at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Askbot

slelievre (2016-08-16 11:30:14 -0600) edit

Reported at askbot-devel issue #324: - https://github.com/ASKBOT/askbot-devel/issues/324 but the issue was closed after a similar but different bug was solved... ...and I can't convince @Evgeny to reopen.

slelievre (2018-04-06 14:15:34 -0600) edit

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Here is bug demo https://askbot.org/doc/deployment.html#configure-webserver

gopalraha (2017-05-09 10:52:11 -0600) edit

There is a report from August 2013 https://askbot.org/en/question/11412/links-in-comments-are-not-always-as-expected/%3C/p%3E (https://askbot.org/en/question/11412/links-in-comments-are-not-always-as-expected/)

Martin (2017-08-09 05:16:25 -0600) edit

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Autolinking URLs adds a trailing </p>