37684 - [RFE] automatic http:// in bugzilla URL field

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Bugzilla :: Bugzilla-General, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Jesse Ruderman]

users often forget to include http:// in urls when submitting bugs.  i suggest 
that if a url doesn't have a protocol that http:// be added automatically.

alternatively, the new bug page could be modified to say "(include http://!)" 
right after the url field, but last i heard the goal was to not clutter the new 
bug page.

Comment 1

[Sean Richardson]

Yes, this is a common mistake by first-time bug report filers.
Without the protocol specified, the _URL_ link on show_bug.cgi pages
ends up pointing to http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/www.somedomain.sometld/whatever
-- which is an annoyance. 

Silently fixing these is probably the best approach, but "http://" should
not be automatically prepended if the URL starts with "ftp." or "mail." --
although, at that, there would be far fewer of those to fix up than we have
now for URLs with no protocol specified.

Comment 2

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

Yo, we got a patch for this.

Comment 3

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

*** Bug 39104 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[Sean Richardson]

There's a dueling proposal in bug 42609, "Only allow well formed URLs in URL 
field of bug report"... this RFE and that one can't both be applied.

Comment 5

[Hugh Kennedy]

that's only sort-of true.
fixing this doesn't keep people from entering well-formed URLs,
infact, this won't touch correct entries.

Comment 6

[Chris Yeh]

consideration for 2.12

Comment 7

[Chris Yeh]

see bug 42609 for what eventually happened to this bug.

Comment 8

[Tara Hernandez]

Sorry for the spam, but I needed to be able to query for all of these correctly.

Comment 9

[Jacob Steenhagen]

Y.

Comment 10

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

Moving closed bugs to Bugzilla product