Special:OAuth/foo doesn't parse HTML error link
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	DannyS712
	Aug 22 2019, 10:02 AM

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Steps to reproduce
Go to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:OAuth/lorem_ipsum

Actual content:

Display

Sorry, something went wrong, you'll need to contact the application author for help with this.

Unknown URL, <a class="external" href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:OAuth/Errors#E002">E002</a>

Return to Main Page.

HTML

<p>Sorry, something went wrong, you'll need to contact the application author for help with this.
</p><p><span class="plainlinks mw-mwoautherror-details">Unknown URL, &lt;a class="external" href="<a class="external free" href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:OAuth/Errors#E002">https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:OAuth/Errors#E002</a>"&gt;E002&lt;/a&gt;</span>
</p><p id="mw-returnto">Return to <a href="/wiki/Main_Page" title="Main Page">Main Page</a>.</p>

Details

Related Changes in Gerrit:

	Subject	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
	Parse error E002 error link	mediawiki/extensions/OAuth	master	+1 -1

Customize query in gerrit

Related Objects

Duplicates Merged Here: T215669: Raw html in Special:OAuth invalid-action error message

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DannyS712 created this task.Aug 22 2019, 10:02 AM

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DannyS712 moved this task from Unsorted to Others on the User-DannyS712 board.Aug 22 2019, 10:47 AM

Tgr moved this task from Uncategorized to UI/UX on the MediaWiki-extensions-OAuth board.Aug 27 2019, 6:00 PM

Tgr added a project: good first task.

I would like to work on this.

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Unknown URL, Error: E002

Return to Main Page.

is this what is required?
OR

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Unknown URL, E002

Return to Main Page.

where should I submit the Gerrit patch or pull request?

The raw HTML should be something like

<p>Sorry, something went wrong, you'll need to contact the application author for help with this.</p>
<p><span class="plainlinks mw-mwoautherror-details">Unknown URL, <a class="external" href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:OAuth/Errors#E002">E002</a></span></p>
<p id="mw-returnto">Return to <a href="/wiki/Main_Page" title="Main Page">Main Page</a>.</p>

You probably need to change how the relevant error message gets parsed, see the messages API.

The repo is mediawiki/extensions/OAuth on gerrit.

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Unknown URL, Error: E002

Return to Main Page.

I got the result using this raw HTML

<p>Sorry, something went wrong, you'll need to contact the application author for help with this.</p>
<p><span class="plainlinks mw-mwoautherror-details">Unknown URL, <a class="external free", href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:OAuth/Errors#E002">Error: E002</a></span></p>
<p id="mw-returnto">Return to <a href="/wiki/Main_Page" title="Main Page">Main Page</a>.</p>

do we need to display the description of error as well?

DannyS712 moved this task from Others to Reports on the User-DannyS712 board.Nov 18 2019, 10:46 AM

@Nikitrain Are you still working on this? If so (which would be fine), nevermind, if not, I would like to use this task as a Google-Code-in-2019 task? :)