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Incorrect parsing of answer URL as question

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Bhargav reported this post in this chat message:

 !!/report https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20038353/smooth-animation-when-tab-switches/48046679#48046679

The link was somehow parsed as a question link, resulting in this URL in the report (MS):

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20038353

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Created 6 years ago
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Comments:8 (5 by maintainers)

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Bhargav-Raocommented, Jan 4, 2018

I’m not sure if ChatExchange uses the /message/<message_id> endpoint, but it is known to insert some invisible characters in between long URLs. In the one which I reported:

!!/report https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20038353/smooth-animation-when-tab-switches/&zwnj;&#8203;48046679#48046679

The &zwnj; character has appeared exactly after the / which might have lead to an incorrect parsing of the URL.

This was one reason why I had troubling parsing the URL in one of my bots earlier.

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Bhargav-Raocommented, Jan 24, 2018

FWIW, this occurred again … here https://chat.stackoverflow.com/transcript/message/40942991#40942991. I’m sure that the invisible character stuff is the reason to blame.

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