How can I use ftp://user:pw@host/... style urls in the wiki?

Question

When defining a link like this

[description](ftp://user:pw@host/...)

or simply

ftp://user:pw@host/...

Azure DevOps turns the colon between user and pw into a slash. In other words, the effective user name when clicking the link will be user/pw, with no password set.

Is there a way to prevent AzDO from doing that?

As a workaround, I'm now using backticks:

`ftp://user:pw@host/...`

which keeps the url unchanged, but a) it is not turned into a clickable link and b) I cannot use a description text to be displayed in place of the link.

Update: What I'm trying to do is fine according to CommonMark, an attempt to create an unambiguous specification of Markdown, that has been adopted by the likes of GitHub and StackOverflow:

Answer 1

Update>>By reference to this doc: About Wikis, READMEs, and Markdown, wiki uses Markdown format.

Testing in Markdown online and found that this [description](ftp://user:pw@host/...) will show link content ftp://user:pw@host/.... However, it shows ftp://user/pw@host/... in Azure DevOps wiki page, so this issue can be reproduced.

It might be caused by Azure DevOps security consideration, I suggest that you could submit this issue here, so the product group will investigate it further. Thanks for your feedback.