Looks like something we should fix. The fix should hyper link the whole FTP link the same way HTTP links are hyper linked. Patches are welcome.

not sure how to do patches.

my solution was to edit core/string_api.php and change the string_insert_hrefs() function so it "fixes" links that it has broken.

Place this before the "return $p_string" line and it works:

Undo broken FTP access links (and any other recursive links) which were created accidentally

repeated twice because the regexp above can cause recursive links in FTP access URLs

for($i=0;$i<2;++$i)$p_string = preg_replace( '/(<a [^<])<a href="([^"])">([^<]*)<\/a>/', '$1$3', $p_string );

not sure why this is in "Printing" anyway - the problem turns up in normal notes as well

This should be fixed as part of the changes made for 0007790 and 0010228.

this does appear to be fixed. the URL in the Description was a good example of it. it's showing correctly now.