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Bug 4037 - UI feedback for URIs missing the http.
Summary: UI feedback for URIs missing the http.
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Unicorn
Classification: Unclassified
Component: UI (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Macintosh All
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: This bug has no owner yet - up for the taking
QA Contact: qa-dev tracking
URL: http://qa-dev.w3.org/unicorn/observe?...
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Reported: 2006-12-06 00:40 UTC by Karl Dubost
Modified: 2009-10-01 17:08 UTC (History)
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Description Karl Dubost 2006-12-06 00:40:13 UTC 
When a user enters an URI without the "http://", Unicorn replies with Critical Error and a stack trace dump.

I suggest two possible solutions by order of preferences.

1. Fallback mechanism to add automatically the missing protocol information.
   Maybe, plus a gentle message like
   "Please, next time provide http://"

2. A gentle message:
   "You have not given a complete URI, we need you to add http://"
   Though it is not very helpful from a usability point of view.
Comment 1 Jean-Guilhem Rouel 2009-10-01 17:08:15 UTC 
http:// is now automatically appended. Nice messages are displayed if the URI has an unsupported protocol.