Automatic links

Darius

It would be nice if there was an option to turn off automatic links (e.g. www.someurl.com will be made into a link). I'd say most of the time it's a nice touch, but sometimes it's a nuisance and sometimes an outright problem. It's a nuisance when you are just referring to a url. For example, I don't actually want someone to go to www.someurl.com, it may be a site. Heck, it may be a site of questionable content :P. It's a problem when you are writing HTTP protocol stuff (and other protocols). For example, every HTTP/1.1 message must include a Host field. The format is Host: url. If I'm writing an example of getting a webpage at the socket level (which I've done more than once, well related things) then I'd probably write something like... socket.write("GET /index.html HTTP/1.1
Host: www.someurl.com

");. However, Programmers Heaven will change the url to be http://www.someurl.com which is incorrect. It even does this in code blocks. I would prefer an option rather than just having code blocks protected as even things like HTTP/1.1 are mangled and I'd rather not have to try [ code] around it just to type it.

[code]
www.test.com
[/code]

"We can't do nothing and think someone else will make it right."
-Kyoto Now, Bad Religion

WEBMASTER

Thanks for the feedback, I will see what I can do about that.





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Darius

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Adding [link] [/link] tags, may be a good suggestion. It would go along with my suggestion of turning off automatic linking by allowing links to be explicitly placed and clearly marked. Also, it would help when PH doesn't quite get it right (and would keep you from making intricate code to try to get it right without false positives). A simple example, that isn't really helpful where PH fails is gcc.gnu.org. This can easily be fixed by http://gcc.gnu.org. Another that probably is very difficult to fix (without getting false positives) happens with some complex query strings. I'll find an example.

http://www.somesite.com/index.html. This is one problem (note the .)
http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/ProductInformation/0,,30_118_1274_3734,00.html

"We can't do nothing and think someone else will make it right."
-Kyoto Now, Bad Religion