Can't link data URIs
data
URIs are valid URIs and useful to point to as quick test cases, but GitLab markdown chokes on them.
Entering the following text into, e.g., the main body of an issue doesn't auto-link the URI, as would for an http URI:
data:text/html;charset=utf8,<body id="foo"></body>
Even explicitly linking and escaping doesn't help:
[data:text/html;charset=utf8,\<body id="foo"\>\</body\>](data:text/html;charset=utf8,<body id="foo"></body>)
The latter example produces the following: [data:text/html;charset=utf8,<body id="foo"></body>](data:text/html;charset=utf8,
)Notice that there is no href
associated with the resulting a
element, so it doesn't function as link; clicking it does nothing, and the browser doesn't offer a choice to copy the address (because there isn't one).