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Bug 6968 - Warn when unknown schemes are detected
Summary: Warn when unknown schemes are detected
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: mobileOK Basic checker
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Web interface (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: PC Linux
: P2 enhancement
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: fd
QA Contact: fd
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Reported: 2009-05-27 13:22 UTC by fd
Modified: 2009-05-27 13:22 UTC (History)
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Description fd 2009-05-27 13:22:28 UTC
The mobileOK spec only supports http and https URIs and decided to ignore other schemes.

The net result is that no WARN is returned when a non-http URI is encountered in a resource.

This applies to links, in which case the decision to ignore may be justified by the existence of "tel" and "mailto" URIs. This also applies to Included Resources:
 http://www.w3.org/TR/mobileOK-basic10-tests/#included_resources

This means that:
 <img src="foo:bar" /> does not trigger an error and a page that contains this code can be mobileOK.

It sounds like a reasonable idea to warn users when URIs are ignored. This would typically be useful to fix syntax errors such as:
 <a href="htpp://foo/bar">blah</a>