pasted URL always shortened even when turned off

[Captain Chaos]

Gwibber always shortens pasted URL's, even when "automatically shorten pasted URLs is turned off".

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: gwibber 3.2.1-0ubuntu1.3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-13.22-generic 3.0.6
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-13-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Nov 26 18:49:26 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
SourcePackage: gwibber
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-11-23 (3 days ago)

[Matt Fischer (mfisch)]

I can confirm this behavior. Also, the URL shortening service used is not even one of the options given in gwibber. gwibber used t.co for the URL I posted.

I will note that twitter.com, in a browser, shows my URL as "ubuntu.com". I do not know if twitter is auto-expanding that URL or whether gwibber didn't really post it with a shortened URL.

[Captain Chaos (launchpad-chaos)]

Matt, it's highly unlikely that Gwibber would be using t.co. As far as I know that is a private service created and exclusively used by Twitter.

Gwibber shows your tweets as downloaded from Twitter, not as you posted them, and Twitter unfortunately shortens every link using their own link shortener, whether you want it to or not, and whether it actually becomes shorter or not.

The behaviour I am seeing is that as soon as I paste a link into Gwibber, it gets shortened (using is.gd, in my case), so before it is even posted.

[Bilal Shahid (s9iper1)]

ken can you please see this one i have also checked it with 3.3.3 and i am able to reproduce it. if we close the URL shorten option than there may be a possible that it displays that URL as it is and don't change
 as we see the bug so if the URL shorten is off or on it doesn't matter it displays the shorten URL

[Luiz Gregorio (lggregorio)]

Hi all,
I am also facing the same problem on Gwibber running on my machine. I use URL shortener option, however, sometimes I prefer to paste the URL without having it shortened, something like <www.uol.com.br>, which is simpler for others to understand.
Here the problem starts, even if I uncheck the option for automatically shortening and paste any URL there, it will be shortened by tinyurl or any service it is highlighted.
I also checked the config file where it reads:
<entry name="shorten_urls" mtime="1326835342" type="bool" value="false"/>

I am facing this problem on Ubuntu and also on Mint

[Martin T. (mart-e)]

I had a look at the code and I may have a lead. The url is automatically shortened with a copy-paste when the function URLShorten.Shorten is called without checking the settings "shorten-urls".

Strangely I couldn't find where it was called from, at least not from client.py or gwui.py (the only place I found where this function is called and anyway the setting is checked there).

The not-so-beautiful solution I found was to recheck the setting again in the function URLShorten.Shorten (cf my patch)

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