Enhancement: Link field to not require https://

[albanycomputers]

I'm getting a lot of people having trouble filling in links... A lot of people are unfamiliar with entering https://

Can the functionality be updated to allow links without https://

Many thanks.

[albanycomputers]

In the file core/includes/common.inc

function valid_url - line 1427

The two parameters are

• @param $url
• The URL to verify.
• @param $absolute

• Whether the URL is absolute (beginning with a scheme such as "http:").

  In the Webform link.inc

  The $absolute value is set to TRUE... having an option to select either true or false would be more helpful.

  The valid_url is based on RFC 3986 which has been replaced by rfc8820...

[herbdool]

There are two layers of validation:

1. It uses the <input type="url"> element which browsers will validate. See https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/input/url. It will accept things like:

ssh://user@example.org
mailto://user@example.org
http://example.org
file://c
ftp://user@example.org
feed://example.org

But it will not accept domains without the prefix. It still requires ssh://, mailto://, https://, http://, file://, ftp://, feed://.

2. valid_url() function in Backdrop which is a bit stingier. If $absolute = TRUE then it will only check ftp://, http://, https://, and feed://. So it's an option to disable that check, but the browser would still not allow someone to enter example.org without a prefix.

So I don't think that's going to fit your request if just the one check is removed.

Both would have to be optional. And in that case, maybe just use a regular textfield?