Disable Shorten Url Feature

Question

In the thread replies, it kept converting: http://localhost:9080/cortex/oauth2/tokens to: localhost:9080/.../tokens 
 I finally had to put the URL in a code block to make it work. How do we turn this "feature" off?

Michael Monteleone · Answer

This can't be turned off. It's the platform's behavior to transform plain text URLs within content into clickable links if they weren't already entered as such. That said, it should only show up in certain circumstances: basically whenever a URL is added to content and not not a full HTML link. 
 If you're using the rich text editor, it will already attempt to transform plain text URLs to links as you proceed to type after typing/pasting them. So If you had newlines or more text after a URL, the editor itself should convert it into a link before it gets sent to back to the server, and so the server would never have a chance to do its own transformation/shortening. 
 One case where you may not see this is if the URL is added to the very end of a post, such as pasting it into the end of a status message which typically submits on enter instead of adding a new line. 
 Even in that case, inserting the link via the Insert > Link menu would avoid this too.