[TYPO3-mvc] link.external : how about adding 'http://' ?

[Christine Gerpheide]

2010/10/22 Christine Gerpheide <cgerpheide at gmail.com>

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> 2010/10/22 Franz Koch <typo3.RemoveForMessage at elements-net.de>
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> Hi,
>>
>>
>>  Currently, if the link.external viewhelper is passed "www.google.com" as
>>> the
>>> uri, then the link is rendered as<a href="
>>> http://mytypo3site.com/www.google.com">...</a>.  Because this is an
>>> external
>>> link, this is obviously not correct right?
>>>
>>> What would you all think about appending "http://" to the link in this
>>> viewhelper when there is no other protocol present?
>>>
>>> I realize the link-setter popup in the backend probably adds http:// for
>>> you, but in my case I'm taking a value from typoscript, so no Javascript
>>> helpers to add this..
>>>
>>
>> although just a workaround, you could use the link.page viewHelper which
>> passes the given string through typolink and everything should be fine again
>> :)
>>
>> --
>> kind regards,
>> Franz Koch
>>
>
> Hi Franz,
>
> This is true... But as this is an external link, that would be more
> appropriate in general.  Is this, though, to imply we don't like the idea of
> adding http:// in the external viewhelper?  I'm open to reasons why this
> would be a bad idea, but  it seems like this could be a nice convenience.
>
> Christine
>


I guess my problem with the workaround specifically is, semantically, I'd
prefer to write the actually <a> tag out manually than have to pass in a
string "www.google.com" as the "pageUid" parameter in the link.page
viewhelper.

Christine