Gwibber fails to hyperlink "www.*" it only hyperlinks "http://*"

[nutznboltz]

Binary package hint: gwibber

The twitter web site automatically converts www.* into a hyperlink as does many other clients.

For an example tweet with auto-hyperlink of a "www.*" address see:
http://twitter.com/tinybuddha/status/19850481188

Gwibber on the other hand only converts "http://*" addresses into hyperlinks automatically; it fails to do the same conversion for "www.*" addresses.

Please make Gwibber as good as the web site, thanks.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: gwibber 2.30.1-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-24.38-generic 2.6.32.15+drm33.5
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-24-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Jul 29 16:50:58 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100427.1)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gwibber

[Victor Vargas (kamus)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 592283, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.

[nutznboltz (nutznboltz-deactivatedaccount)]

This bug is most definitely not a duplicate of bug 592283

bug 592283 is about the t.co URL shortener

This bug has absolutely nothing to do with the t.co URL shortener

[nutznboltz (nutznboltz-deactivatedaccount)]

This bug is not about entering a message, it is about displaying messages.

[Victor Vargas (kamus)]

sorry about that I have reopen your report again

[Victor Vargas (kamus)]

you are talking about this right? please see attached screenshot.

[nutznboltz (nutznboltz-deactivatedaccount)]

@Kamus - exactly!

[Victor Vargas (kamus)]

This issue is still occuring under latest release of gwibber 2.31.3.x so I have sent this requirement to upstream tracker, Thanks.

[nutznboltz (nutznboltz-deactivatedaccount)]

Linking text that starts with www. is not really sufficient.

Admittedly, the web site doesn't hyperlink "yesontitle24.com" in this tweet:

http://twitter.com/mrommel/status/21445120554

but TweetDeck does hyperlink it.

[David Collins (davidapc)]

I've narrowed the root of this bug down to the "linkify" function in gwibber/microblog/util/__init__.py

I'm having trouble editing it though, even if I completely delete the function, when I run gwibber again links still keep appearing.

I'm new to Gwibber's source code so I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong, even deleting the pyc file, I have to clear the entire contents of the init file before it even throws an error.