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[Steve Chadsey <schadsey@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Jaap,

Thanks for the explanation. I understand that having a spec to follow can
simplify things at the application code level. But for an end user like me,
it does not provide any benefit and in fact the application is more tedious
to use because of it. A good 60-75% of the URLs I paste into zim are copied
from the browser's URL bar for an internal work-related website that never
has a domain name in the URL. So, what was an automatic process of
hyperlinking in v0.68 now takes extra steps. I would understand it more if
it were some non standard scheme or something like that, but "
https://site/path"; seems a pretty common URL pattern for intranets.

Would there be any chance that the URL matching could be expanded for this
case in a future release? Or, if this behavior could be modified via a
plugin, I could look into writing one.

Thanks,
-Steve

On Thu, Apr 22, 2021 at 2:23 PM Jaap Karssenberg <jaap.karssenberg@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Yes, this is intentional. Followed the Github Flavored Markdown spec on
> how to match valid URLs. Want to avoid too lax matching. You can still turn
> those URLs into links using Ctrl-L.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jaap
>
> On Thu, Apr 22, 2021 at 6:05 PM Steve Chadsey <schadsey@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> zim version0.73.5-t202104131839~ubuntu18.04.1 on Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS,
>> 4.15.0-140-generic, x86_64
>>
>> I've just updated from 0.68~rc1-2 to the above version. I have noticed
>> that when I paste URLs that contain only a hostname (e.g.,
>> https://site/path) into a page, they don't get auto-hyperlinked. When
>> the hostname is fully qualified, the URLs do get auto-hyperlinked. Is this
>> a known issue? Both URL types would get auto-hyperlinked in the 0.68
>> version.
>>
>> Steps to reproduce:
>> 1. Paste or type a URL into a zim page
>> 2. Hit <enter> or ctrl-R to refresh
>>
>> Test cases:
>> Failing:
>> http://site
>> http://site/
>> http://site/path
>> https://site
>> https://site/
>> https://site/path
>>
>> Passing:
>> http://site.test
>> http://site.test/
>> http://site.test/path
>> https://site.test
>> https://site.test/
>> https://site.test/path
>>
>> Thanks,
>> --
>> Steve Chadsey <schadsey@xxxxxxxxx>
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Steve Chadsey <schadsey@xxxxxxxxx>