[TIKA-381] HtmlParser should strip linefeeds out of links

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 1.8
• Component/s: parser
• Assignee: Kenneth William Krugler
• Reporter: Kenneth William Krugler
• Created: 19/Feb/10 20:13
• Updated: 09/Dec/15 17:35

Description

A number of HTML pages contain links where the URL has a linefeed in the middle of it.

Browsers such as Firefox will automatically remove the character but Tika passes it back, which results in a broken URL.