Comments on: Just in case your blog is Top Sekrit http://www.johnband.org/blog/2007/12/04/just-in-case-your-blog-is-top-sekrit/ The idle musings of John B Wed, 08 Sep 2010 17:17:43 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Neil http://www.johnband.org/blog/2007/12/04/just-in-case-your-blog-is-top-sekrit/comment-page-1/#comment-24645 Neil Mon, 10 Dec 2007 12:49:46 +0000 http://www.johnband.org/blog/2007/12/04/just-in-case-your-blog-is-top-sekrit/#comment-24645 Future proofing, innit - just because a protocol hasn't been invented yet, doesn't mean you might not want your comment to link to it. And you don't want to be looping over a hard-coded list of protocols either, better to check for xxxx: at the start and assume it's http:// if that is not there. ^[a-z0-9+.-]*: would be the regex to use. (Do I win a prize for geekery above and beyond the call of duty?) Future proofing, innit – just because a protocol hasn’t been invented yet, doesn’t mean you might not want your comment to link to it.

And you don’t want to be looping over a hard-coded list of protocols either, better to check for xxxx: at the start and assume it’s http:// if that is not there.

^[a-z0-9+.-]*: would be the regex to use.

(Do I win a prize for geekery above and beyond the call of duty?)

]]> By: Jim Bliss http://www.johnband.org/blog/2007/12/04/just-in-case-your-blog-is-top-sekrit/comment-page-1/#comment-24428 Jim Bliss Fri, 07 Dec 2007 01:26:56 +0000 http://www.johnband.org/blog/2007/12/04/just-in-case-your-blog-is-top-sekrit/#comment-24428 My first blog was self-built. Coldfusion (rather than ASP) and Access. I had a short script that checked to see if a URL started with a recognised protocol (there's not a huge number of protocols, so putting them into a list and looping through it doesn't involve much additional processing when it comes to validating form entry, above and beyond whatever regular validation you do). If no protocol existed, it prepended "http://" and Bob was my uncle. I've never understood why so many developers don't take a little more time to sort out form entry and validation. For the few extra minutes it takes, you address 90% of the problems people will have, in practice, with your site. My first blog was self-built. Coldfusion (rather than ASP) and Access. I had a short script that checked to see if a URL started with a recognised protocol (there’s not a huge number of protocols, so putting them into a list and looping through it doesn’t involve much additional processing when it comes to validating form entry, above and beyond whatever regular validation you do). If no protocol existed, it prepended “http://” and Bob was my uncle. I’ve never understood why so many developers don’t take a little more time to sort out form entry and validation. For the few extra minutes it takes, you address 90% of the problems people will have, in practice, with your site.

]]> By: Alex http://www.johnband.org/blog/2007/12/04/just-in-case-your-blog-is-top-sekrit/comment-page-1/#comment-24237 Alex Tue, 04 Dec 2007 20:46:49 +0000 http://www.johnband.org/blog/2007/12/04/just-in-case-your-blog-is-top-sekrit/#comment-24237 The CIA's website is all https, so if they ever did set up that internal blogging platform I recall hearing about, your https blogs are right there. The CIA’s website is all https, so if they ever did set up that internal blogging platform I recall hearing about, your https blogs are right there.

]]> By: John B http://www.johnband.org/blog/2007/12/04/just-in-case-your-blog-is-top-sekrit/comment-page-1/#comment-24219 John B Tue, 04 Dec 2007 16:29:38 +0000 http://www.johnband.org/blog/2007/12/04/just-in-case-your-blog-is-top-sekrit/#comment-24219 Yes - I think it might have been the only blog ever to have been based on Access and ASP [actually, there are probably some corporate blogs at IIS shops that do the same. Poor misguided fools...]. And I wrote a script that added an "http://" when appropriate, which I /think/ worked OK... Yes – I think it might have been the only blog ever to have been based on Access and ASP [actually, there are probably some corporate blogs at IIS shops that do the same. Poor misguided fools...]. And I wrote a script that added an “http://” when appropriate, which I /think/ worked OK…

]]> By: Stephen Newton http://www.johnband.org/blog/2007/12/04/just-in-case-your-blog-is-top-sekrit/comment-page-1/#comment-24217 Stephen Newton Tue, 04 Dec 2007 16:20:02 +0000 http://www.johnband.org/blog/2007/12/04/just-in-case-your-blog-is-top-sekrit/#comment-24217 I've also suffered this problem in WordPress and have an instruction to include http:// when including a web address with a comment. I did delve in the code and try adding it, but for some reason ended up getting http://http:// or http://http://http:// or http://http://http://http:// Wasn't SBBS your own creation? I’ve also suffered this problem in WordPress and have an instruction to include http:// when including a web address with a comment. I did delve in the code and try adding it, but for some reason ended up getting http://http:// or http://http://http:// or http://http://http://http://

Wasn’t SBBS your own creation?

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