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Opened 4 years ago

Last modified 17 months ago

#37758 new defect (bug)

The Link Checker tool does not detect some links

Reported by: Djibs13 Owned by:
Milestone: Awaiting Review Priority: normal
Severity: normal Version: 4.6
Component: Editor Keywords: needs-patch
Focuses: administration Cc:

Description

hello,

The Link Checker tool in WordPress 4.6 doesn’t detect an error when you put something before ‘http(s)‘. Example: xhttps://www.google.com

And the tool does not detect error if a missing letter in "http".
examples :
ttps://core.trac.wordpress.org/newticket
htps://core.trac.wordpress.org/newticket
htts://core.trac.wordpress.org/newticket

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Change History (5)

@Djibs13
4 years ago

#1 @Presskopp
4 years ago

Confirmed. You can enter most kinds of stupidity and it will not fire.

Related: #36638, code to find in [38159]

@azaozz

#2 @Presskopp
4 years ago

  • Keywords needs-patch added

#3 @azaozz
4 years ago

Right. In order to not flag all the various ​URI schemes, it only checks links that start with http. Note that there is another small piece of regex in both link dialogs that prepends http:// to URIs that do not look like local.

On the other hand this can be changed to trigger on anything other than /^(https?|ftp|mailto):|^\//i as these uncommon schemes are probably used very very rarely.

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