Bug?"http://" is added while formatting the code

It is observed that "http://" is added in the script, if formatted as "Code Sample". So I think that has to be fixed? Here is an example of that.

asked Mar 16 '12 at 07:13 AM in Site discussion (meta-askssc)

Usman Butt
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I have asked the developers to take a look at this.

Mar 16 '12 at 01:18 PM DaveC ♦♦

I don't think this is going to be fixed. So marking the only answer given ;) Also last day for the bounty :-)

May 31 '12 at 02:22 PM Usman Butt

This bug actually is fixed in the next push. Dave will be reaching out to you guys to test this version before it goes live :)

May 31 '12 at 02:27 PM matt 4 ♦♦

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2 answers:

This is a bit of a bug in the way that the markdown auto-linker works. Since we try to autolink things that don't have http:// in them, we look for things that might be domains. Apparently, .id is in the list of valid domain endings and we linked in. We'll look for a fix, probably to not autolink things in code or remove .id from the list since its not very common anyway.

answered Mar 19 '12 at 11:27 AM