HTML <meta> tag not properly escaped about tinyissue HOT 6 CLOSED

GitHub threw it out… but what I pasted into the issue that broke everything was this, as an HTML tag in angle brackets.

meta http-equiv="refresh" content="2; url=http://blah.foo.com"

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I'm kind of confused...you put the <meta> tag in the body of an issue and it wasn't escaped properly?

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Correct. I pasted in a tag like this:

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="2; url=http://yahoo.com">

It renders like this after link detection:

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="2; url=<a href="http://yahoo.com">yahoo.com</a>"><br />

The redirect is honored and I go to this nonexistent URL after 2 seconds:

/index.php/project/4/issue/%3Ca%20href=

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Ok, what seems to be happening is that the code that auto-creates links is doing that with your <meta>. At this point I don't think there's anything you can do...

If you don't mind me asking: Why are you putting a meta refresh in the issue body text? (just out of curiosity)

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Some code I am trying to work out uses this meta refresh tag, and it was being discussed in the issue notes.

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Ok, that makes sense! But, until some more sophisticated formatting is added I don't really think there's anything that can be done.

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