[publican-list] Re: ulinks failing when not using the full "http://www" URL.

[Paul W. Frields]

On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 02:56:12PM +1000, Murray McAllister wrote:
> Murray McAllister wrote:
>> <ulink url="google.com" />
>>
>> Tries to open "/home/mmcallis/test/testing/tmp/en-US/html/google.com."
>>
>> ...Maybe this one should not work, but I would have expected the  
>> following to:
>>
>> <ulink url="www.google.com" />
>>
>> Tries to open "/home/mmcallis/test/testing/tmp/en-US/html/www.google.com"
>>
>> I don't remember this being how things always were, but my memory is 
>> not very good anymore :)
>>
> publican-0.39-2.el5_2
> publican-fedora-0.16-0.el5_2
>
> and
>
> publican-0.39-0.fc10.noarch
> publican-fedora-0.16-0.fc10.noarch

A URL really must include a protocol if you intend to search outside
the local file system.  Otherwise, how is any application supposed to
tell the difference between the local file "command.com" and
"http://command.com"?

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