MDL-87580 task: Fix task output autolinking

admin/tool/task/lib.php

@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ function tool_task_mtrace_wrapper(string $message, string $eol = ''): void {
 
     // We autolink urls and emails here but can't use format_text as it does
     // more than we need and has side effects which are not useful in this context.
-    $urlpattern = '/(http|https|ftp|ftps)\:\/\/[a-zA-Z0-9\-\.]+\.[a-zA-Z]{2,3}(\/\S*)?/';
+    $urlpattern = '~\b(?:https?|ftps?)://[a-z0-9-]+(?:\.[a-z0-9-]+)*(?::\d+)?(?:/[^\s<]*)?~i';
     $message = preg_replace_callback($urlpattern, function($matches) {
         $url = $matches[0];
         return html_writer::link($url, $url, ['target' => '_blank']);

admin/tool/task/tests/lib_test.php

@@ -0,0 +1,82 @@
+<?php
+// This file is part of Moodle - http://moodle.org/
+//
+// Moodle is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+// it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+// the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+// (at your option) any later version.
+//
+// Moodle is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+// but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+// MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+// GNU General Public License for more details.
+//
+// You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+// along with Moodle.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+namespace tool_task;
+
+/**
+ * Test for the lib class.
+ *
+ * @package    tool_task
+ * @copyright  2026 Brendan Heywood <[email protected]>
+ * @license    http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html GNU GPL v3 or later
+ */
+final class lib_test extends \advanced_testcase {
+    /**
+     * Data provider for mtrace
+     *
+     * @return array
+     */
+    public static function tool_task_mtrace_wrapper_provider(): array {
+        return [
+            [
+                'A url http://moodle.com',
+                'A url <a target="_blank" href="http://moodle.com">http://moodle.com</a>',
+            ],
+            [
+                'A url https://moodle.com',
+                'A url <a target="_blank" href="https://moodle.com">https://moodle.com</a>',
+            ],
+            [
+                'A url https://moodle.com post text',
+                'A url <a target="_blank" href="https://moodle.com">https://moodle.com</a> post text',
+            ],
+            [
+                'A url https://moodle.com. In a paragraph',
+                'A url <a target="_blank" href="https://moodle.com">https://moodle.com</a>. In a paragraph',
+            ],
+            [
+                'A url https://localhost post text',
+                'A url <a target="_blank" href="https://localhost">https://localhost</a> post text',
+            ],
+            [
+                'A url https://main.localhost post text',
+                'A url <a target="_blank" href="https://main.localhost">https://main.localhost</a> post text',
+            ],
+            [
+                'email [email protected] after',
+                'email <a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a> after',
+            ],
+            [
+                'A sentence that ends in [email protected]. With another sentence.',
+                'A sentence that ends in <a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a>. With another sentence.',
+            ],
+        ];
+    }
+    /**
+     * Test validations for minute field.
+     * @dataProvider tool_task_mtrace_wrapper_provider
+     * @param string $output task output
+     * @param string $expected html
+     * @covers ::tool_task_mtrace_wrapper
+     */
+    public function test_tool_task_mtrace_wrapper(string $output, string $expected): void {
+        global $CFG;
+        require_once("{$CFG->dirroot}/{$CFG->admin}/tool/task/lib.php");
+
+        $this->expectOutputString($expected);
+        $result = tool_task_mtrace_wrapper($output);
+    }
+}