Auto creation of an URL prefixes URL with protocol

[Loe Spee]

When typing an URL in GAIM and posting it (in my case over the MSN network) the receiver of the message gets the URL prefixed with the protocol prefix and "://".

Example:
I type: "Here is the public FTP site ftp.nluug.nl"
The recipient sees: "Here is the public FTP site ftp://ftp.nluug.nl"

Not a big issue, but I was having a discussion with someone about not needing to include the prefix and he said like this "ftp.nluug.nl" and I received it as "ftp://ftp.nluug.nl". Which kept me wondering :)

[Loe Spee (lgespee)]

Forgot to mention:
Ubuntu Dapper Drake Flight 5
Gaim 1.5.1cvs

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thanks for your bug. That looks like a feature rather than a bug. Luke, is there an option for that?

[Loe Spee (lgespee)]

Best of both worlds would be to display the original entered text.
But make the href of the link point to the parsed address.

[Luke Schierer (lschiere)]

There isn't an option for that. There is linkifying code in our gtkimhtml stuff that tries to play right with what each protocol states it is capable of supporting. Not having this behavior causes bug reports.

[Loe Spee (lgespee)]

Well the link should still be clickable, but the entered text must not change.
The text that was entered should be linkyfied, and link to the link calculated by the library (or whatever), but the caption, the text the recipient sees should be the text entered by the user.

[Jeff Greene (jeffgreene)]

This is fixed in gaim 2.0.0. I tested it and the text doesn't get changed, but the link does.

[Loe Spee (lgespee)]

Absolutely fabulous, not a big issue, but one of those things that just make it all a bit more complete ;).

Thanks for the fix.