'&' at the end of a valid URL parses incorrectly about autolinker.js

[Cogito]

It's worth noting that the situation I am running into occurs when something like google.com" is escaped to google.com"

This is then turned into google.com";

Note the trailing semicolon

[warrenrumak]

+1
I ran into this same issue yesterday, except with " around the URL instead of "

[gregjacobs]

Thanks for the report, will look into it

[warrenrumak]

Quick failing test I whipped up....

        it( "should handle a URL inside an HTML-encoded anchor tag", function() {
            var html = "Joe learned about anchor tags on the <a href="http://www.w3schools.com/aaa">W3SCHOOLS</a> site ...";
            var tobe = "Joe learned about anchor tags on the &lt;a href=&quot;<a href=\"http://www.w3schools.com/aaa\">w3schools.com</a>&quot;&gt;W3SCHOOLS&lt;/a&gt; site ...";

            var result = autolinker.link( html );
            expect( result ).toBe( tobe );
        });

[nilscc]

+1

Could possibly be solved by adding " to the htmlCharacterEntitiesRegex ? I did this as a temporary workaround and it seems to work:

        var autolinker = new Autolinker();
        autolinker.htmlCharacterEntitiesRegex = /( | |<|<|>|>|"|"|')/gi;

This adds the regex for both " and '.

[gregjacobs]

Fixed in 0.15.2