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Re: [cat-users] Feature req: leading http:// in hepldesk URL

From: Alberto Martínez <alberto_martinez AT deusto.es>
To: Ole Frendved Hansen <olef AT dtu.dk>
Cc: "cat-users AT geant.net" <cat-users AT geant.net>, Bo Bendix <bbch AT adm.ku.dk>
Subject: Re: [cat-users] Feature req: leading http:// in hepldesk URL
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2015 12:36:50 +0100
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Hi,

Prepending a certain protocol (http://) instead of having the institution administrator fix his/her mistake is not a solution. Perhaps it would be easy to check (http://www.w3schools.com/php/filter_validate_url.asp) that the input URL is correct _before_ inserting it.

Maybe it would be useful to check every existing URL in the database for other non-compiant URL values.

Regads,

Alberto

2015-11-10 12:22 GMT+01:00 Ole Frendved Hansen <olef AT dtu.dk>:

Thanks for your answers,

But, Now the problem is developing!
University of Copenhagen claims, that addresses under ‘institution wide’ setting do specify http://...
A screen shot (attached) supports the claim.

CC’ing Bo Bendix at the university.

Best regards, Ole
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Den 10/11/2015 kl. 12.05 skrev Tomasz Wolniewicz <twoln AT umk.pl>:

Yes, we definitely need value checking and warnings. Whether we should
go as far as actually fixing peoples' sloppiness is another thing, and I
would be inclined not to do that.

Tomasz

W dniu 2015-11-10 o 11:59, A.L.M.Buxey AT lboro.ac.uk pisze:
Hi,

One could wish for automatic addition of leading http:// if it is missing.
or https ?

(we had a similar issue with our support URLs for sites on the UK support server
so I know what you mean :-) )

alan

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[cat-users] Feature req: leading http:// in hepldesk URL, Ole Frendved Hansen, 11/10/2015
- Re: [cat-users] Feature req: leading http:// in hepldesk URL, A . L . M . Buxey, 11/10/2015
  - Re: [cat-users] Feature req: leading http:// in hepldesk URL, Tomasz Wolniewicz, 11/10/2015
    - Re: [cat-users] Feature req: leading http:// in hepldesk URL, Ole Frendved Hansen, 11/10/2015
      - Re: [cat-users] Feature req: leading http:// in hepldesk URL, Alberto Martínez, 11/10/2015
      - Re: [cat-users] Feature req: leading http:// in hepldesk URL, Tomasz Wolniewicz, 11/10/2015
        
        Re: [cat-users] Feature req: leading http:// in hepldesk URL, Ole Frendved Hansen, 11/10/2015
    - Re: [cat-users] Feature req: leading http:// in hepldesk URL, A . L . M . Buxey, 11/10/2015