piroor/textlink — Issue #13: TL ignores URLs with unqualified hostnames
Author: shalomb
Created: 2011-11-25 11:34:56+00:00
State: open

URLs with hostnames that are not qualified such as the following are not recognized by TL.

http://example/about
http://localhost/index.html
http://localhost/

TL behaves as normal when the same hostnames are made more "domain-like" or are better qualified, like the following.

http://example.org/about
http://localhost.localdomain/index.html
http://localhost.localdomain/

Our company relies on technologies like sharepoint, mindtouch, etc and it's more than often not necessary to qualify internal hostnames in URLs - the resolution is left to the DNS client. Moreover, when you're developing a site or so, you might not want to qualify hostnames until the project reaches production.