FIX: Work with phpBB import style links with ellipsis

app/assets/javascripts/discourse/dialects/anchor_dialect.js

@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
-// prevent XSS
-Discourse.Dialect.on('parseNode', function (event) {
-  var node = event.node;
-
-  if (node[0] === 'a') {
-    var attributes = node[1];
-    if (attributes["href"]) {
-      if (!Discourse.Markdown.urlAllowed(attributes["href"])) {
-        delete attributes["href"];
-      }
-    }
-  }
-});

app/assets/javascripts/discourse/dialects/nested_link_dialects.js

@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+Discourse.Dialect.on('parseNode', function (event) {
+  var node = event.node,
+      path = event.path;
+
+  if (node[0] === 'a') {
+
+    // It's invalid HTML to nest a link within another so strip it out.
+    for (var i=0; i<path.length; i++) {
+      if (path[i][0] === 'a') {
+        var parent = path[path.length - 1],
+            pos = parent.indexOf(node);
+
+        // Just leave the link text
+        if (pos !== -1) {
+          parent[pos] = node[2];
+        }
+        return;
+      }
+    }
+  }
+});

app/assets/javascripts/discourse/lib/markdown.js

@@ -182,16 +182,6 @@ Discourse.Markdown = {
     if(/^mailto:[\w\.\-@]+/i.test(url)) { return url; }
   },
 
-  /**
-    Checks to see if a name, class or id is allowed in the cooked content
-
-    @method nameIdClassAllowed
-    @param {String} tagName to check
-    @param {String} attribName to check
-    @param {String} value to check
-  **/
-
-
   /**
     Sanitize text using the sanitizer
 

test/javascripts/lib/markdown_test.js

@@ -142,6 +142,10 @@ test("Links", function() {
          "It does not consider references that are obviously not URLs");
 
   cooked("<small>http://eviltrout.com</small>", "<p><small><a href=\"http://eviltrout.com\">http://eviltrout.com</a></small></p>", "Links within HTML tags");
+
+  cooked("[http://google.com ... wat](http://discourse.org)",
+         "<p><a href=\"http://discourse.org\">http://google.com ... wat</a></p>",
+         "it supports linkins within links");
 });
 
 test("simple quotes", function() {