Sometime in April 2003 i noticed that my
software was incorrectly generating 
<a> tags that contained "," in the URL.

when i wrote the code several years ago
i assumed that a "," was not a valid 
character in a URL but that was a WRONG 
assumption. i modified the code so that
if a URL ends in a comma (,), exclamation (!),
question(?), period(.), or semi-colen(;) the
sofware will place a space before the
character.  so

    http://yourstinking.url.com, followed by text

becomes


    http://yourstinking.url.com , followed by text

this fix is not PERFECT but is quick
and allows the software downstream to
assume that URL's either end with a
space or at the end of the line.

today i changed the sed software from

s#http://[^ ,][^ ,]*#<a href="&">&</a>#g

to

/http:\/\/[^ ][^ ]*[,!?.;] /s#\(http://[^ ][^ ]*\)\([,!?.;] \)#\1 \2#g
s#http://[^ ][^ ]*#<a href="&">&</a>#g

which should fix the bug.

now URLS such as 

 http://frog.dog.com?a=1,b=2,c=3,4=dog

will correctly be handeled by the software
and converted to the correctl URL. and
urls that end with periods and other 
puncation will be correctly displayed.

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