bar

http://www.example.com/

baz

http://www.example.com/*

fizzle

When the ending asterisk of an italics block is at the end of a URL, the first asterisk gets converted to <i> but the ending asterisk is included in the URL rather than being converted to </i>, resulting in the rest of the comment being italicized.

test

http://www.example.com/

fizzle more

EDIT: I put a space in between the url and the closing asterisk. I'm not aware of whether or not an asterisk is a valid character for url values.