Bonjour does not display links or formatted text after or followed by unformatted text

[Simon Wenner]

Binary package hint: pidgin

The Bonjour protocol in pidgin 2.4.1 does not display links or formatted text after or followed by unformatted text.

Example:
"Ubuntu is great: http://www.ubuntu.com/"

Is received as:
"Ubuntu is great:"

The same applies if you format certain words.

I think it is this upstream bug: http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/5518 and it was fixed in 2.4.2, but Ubuntu 8.04 LTS users are still affected.

[komputes (komputes)]

I can confirm having this bug as well. In Pidgin, using Bonjour, sending URLs come in blank on the other side, same thing with greater/less than sign (<>) - they also shows up blank on recipients end. I will try to test this with two intrepid machines and pidgin 2.5.0.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? Could you try to reproduce the same with Ubuntu 8.10 or 9.04? Thanks in advance.

[Simon Wenner (nowic)]

No, Ubuntu 8.04 LTS did not get any better. Pidgin 1:2.4.1-1ubuntu2.2 still has this bug. It was fixed in pidgin 2.4.2, so all newer Ubuntu versions work fine. Tested with Ubuntu 8.10 and Debian Lenny.

But I think this bug should be fixed in an LTS version, as it is very annoing for bounjour users. Just try it yourself. Bonjour works in every LAN. No server and no account is needed to test it.

[Simon Wenner (nowic)]

Patch extracted from the pidgin bts: http://developer.pidgin.im/viewmtn/revision/info/949fb9967a8d4bcae83af4ebc6b2681f26b17f5a

Workaround: Send links alone on one line and do not use any formatting.

[komputes (komputes)]

I tested 2.5.2 and 2.5.3 and was not able to reproduce this issue. marking as Fixed.