From 0e466122e2968d1c6f8295d94e328b0d5f1e49fd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Bar=C4=B1=C5=9F=20Soner=20U=C5=9Fakl=C4=B1?=
 <baris@nodebb.org>
Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2016 11:20:53 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] closes #4717

---
 src/posts/parse.js | 32 ++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/posts/parse.js b/src/posts/parse.js
index 6381e066ed..087146e77d 100644
--- a/src/posts/parse.js
+++ b/src/posts/parse.js
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 'use strict';
 
-var nconf = require('nconf'),
-	url = require('url');
+var nconf = require('nconf');
+var url = require('url');
+var winston = require('winston');
 
 var cache = require('./cache');
 var plugins = require('../plugins');
@@ -50,21 +51,24 @@ module.exports = function(Posts) {
 		// Turns relative links in post body to absolute urls
 		var parsed, current, absolute;
 
-		while ((current=urlRegex.exec(content)) !== null) {
+		while ((current = urlRegex.exec(content)) !== null) {
 			if (current[1]) {
-				parsed = url.parse(current[1]);
+				try {
+					parsed = url.parse(current[1]);
+					if (!parsed.protocol) {
+						if (current[1].startsWith('/')) {
+							// Internal link
+							absolute = nconf.get('url') + current[1];
+						} else {
+							// External link
+							absolute = '//' + current[1];
+						}
 
-				if (!parsed.protocol) {
-					if (current[1].startsWith('/')) {
-						// Internal link
-						absolute = nconf.get('url') + current[1];
-					} else {
-						// External link
-						absolute = '//' + current[1];
+						content = content.slice(0, current.index + 6) + absolute + content.slice(current.index + 6 + current[1].length);
 					}
-
-					content = content.slice(0, current.index + 6) + absolute + content.slice(current.index + 6 + current[1].length);
-				}
+				} catch(err) {
+					winston.verbose(err.messsage);					
+				}				
 			}
 		}