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Citoid breaks URLs for www.transfermarkt.de - domain replaced by underscore in URL
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Steps to Reproduce:

  1. Open a wikipage in Visual Editor (e.g. https://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Spielwiese&veaction=edit )
  2. Select "Cite" and "Automatic"
  3. Paste the URL https://www.transfermarkt.de/wechsel-im-winter-brentford-verpflichtet-dervi%C5%9Fo%C4%9Flu-watkins-verlangert-langfristig/view/news/342949 into the box and click on "Create"
  4. Move the cursor over the created link to see the URL

Actual Results:

The host is missing in the URL: https://_/wechsel-im-winter-brentford-verpflichtet-dervi%C5%9Fo%C4%9Flu-watkins-verlangert-langfristig/view/news/342949

Expected Results:

The link should point to the correct URL as put into the dialog box

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Wickie37 created this task.Jan 7 2021, 4:54 PM
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Aklapper renamed this task from Citoid breaks URLs for www.transfermarkt.de to Citoid breaks URLs for www.transfermarkt.de - domain replaced by underscore in URL.Jan 7 2021, 4:56 PM
Aklapper updated the task description. (Show Details)

Hi @Wickie37, thanks for taking the time to report this! Confirming.

ppelberg moved this task from To Triage to Triaged on the VisualEditor board.Jan 12 2021, 4:23 PM
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matmarex subscribed.Jan 12 2021, 7:02 PM

The site itself defines the incorrect URL. From the HTML source of https://www.transfermarkt.de/wechsel-im-winter-brentford-verpflichtet-dervişoğlu-watkins-verlangert-langfristig/view/news/342949:

<meta property="og:url" content="https://_/wechsel-im-winter-brentford-verpflichtet-dervi%C5%9Fo%C4%9Flu-watkins-verlangert-langfristig/view/news/342949" />
Mvolz added a comment.EditedJan 14 2021, 7:19 PM
In T271438#6740988, @matmarex wrote:

The site itself defines the incorrect URL. From the HTML source of https://www.transfermarkt.de/wechsel-im-winter-brentford-verpflichtet-dervişoğlu-watkins-verlangert-langfristig/view/news/342949:

<meta property="og:url" content="https://_/wechsel-im-winter-brentford-verpflichtet-dervi%C5%9Fo%C4%9Flu-watkins-verlangert-langfristig/view/news/342949" />

Yeah we can probably file this one under T242089 ( Consider keeping user entered URL and removing tracking parameters) or close it as a duplicate; it's an inevitable consequence of using the URL as defined by the resource, as opposed to the user entered one.

Wickie37 added a comment.Jan 15 2021, 10:35 AM

Thanks for your comments. Now I had a look at the source code myself. It does define the correct URL:

<link rel="canonical" href="https://www.transfermarkt.de/wechsel-im-winter-brentford-verpflichtet-dervi%C5%9Fo%C4%9Flu-watkins-verlangert-langfristig/view/news/342949" />

Open Graph has a different purpose and - in my opinion - shouldn't be used here. Or at least shouldn't be preferred over '<link rel="canonical"'.

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