What is mangling tinyurls?

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Published on 2010-04-07T02:29:55Z Indexed on 2010/04/07 2:33 UTC
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Hello all.

I've noticed that some form processors make a mess out of posted TinyURLs (converting the thing to a broken 'tinyurl": "http:\/?\/?tinyurl.com\/?whatever", "ok": tr') while leaving alone other plain URLs.
I've seen it happen in WordPress, and I've seen it here on SO (eg.: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2508690/whats-the-most-efficient-way-to-setup-a-multi-lingual-website - second comment to first answer).
Has anybody looked into what component or function is doing this? Is there a way to prevent it?

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