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URL Tag complaint

Posted: Tue Sep 07, 2004 11:35 am
by Avder
Why exactly do we need to include http:// in url tags? Why cant we just go wtfe.site.com ?

Posted: Tue Sep 07, 2004 11:45 am
by Lobber
because some urls are ftp://'s

Posted: Tue Sep 07, 2004 3:16 pm
by DCrazy
Also, a link to www.something.com (without the http://) by definition implies that you're linking to a file called www.something.com in the same directory as the page the link is on. "something.com" is just the file extension for a file named "www".

[edit]And of course the fricken phpBB auto-links my intentionally malformed links. Who'da thunkit? :P[/edit]

Posted: Tue Sep 07, 2004 10:58 pm
by Defender
phpBB will pickup anything with http:// and www. in the proper format.
But if you just post something in a subdomain (like wtfe.site.com) it won't be right unless you put www. or http:// in front.

Posted: Thu Sep 09, 2004 11:36 pm
by Avder
Well thats just gay.

Posted: Fri Sep 10, 2004 12:07 pm
by AceCombat
like you? :mrgreen:

Posted: Fri Sep 10, 2004 2:05 pm
by Ferno
says the feline diddler.

Posted: Mon Sep 13, 2004 3:53 pm
by Testiculese
Scripts don't know subdomains, they're all geared to look for www. or http:// as a prefix. To look for subdomains is not really worth the effort to code it.