RFE Can hyperlinks be added to comments (if they can't already).

[Stanley Hopcroft]

Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,

Is it possible to add a hyperlink to a comment with Nag 1.x ?

Trying to do so results in the CGI echoing the unrendered HTML eg

Wed Jul 07 09:44:19 EXTERNAL COMMAND: ADD_SVC_COMMENT;asterix;COMS 
ad-hoc check;1;Stanley Hopcroft;foo sez a 
href='http://foo_host/cgi-bin/coms_graph_deltas?INT=-2h'graph/a

and for good reason since the <a>, and </a> tags are stripped.

Presumably this is because the '<' and '>' chars are stripped from user 
input for security reasons.

Having a link in a comment may be useful - particuarly an
acknowledgement - to take the CGI user directly to an associated

. a request/'trouble ticket' (from RT for example)

. a change management page

Is there any sensible and safe way of doing this ?

Removing the '<' and '>' from the list of chars that will stripped from
user input doesn't sound a good idea. The only thing that comes to mind
is a primitive address tag recogniser in the comment handling code.

Yours sincerely.

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Stanley Hopcroft
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