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451 introduced URL validation into the JSON publisher creation dialog using a custom regular expression.
We can't really be sure that the regexp won't produce false positives and reject valid URLs.
We want to be on the safe side and prevent giving users a hard time unnecessarily. Instead of complete URL validation, we would want to relax the URL validation to a bare minimum that guarantees that we won't even produce false positives.
Checking that URL starts with http:// or https:// could be enough for us at this moment.
Problem description
451 introduced URL validation into the JSON publisher creation dialog using a custom regular expression.
We can't really be sure that the regexp won't produce false positives and reject valid URLs.
We want to be on the safe side and prevent giving users a hard time unnecessarily. Instead of complete URL validation, we would want to relax the URL validation to a bare minimum that guarantees that we won't even produce false positives.
Checking that URL starts with
http://orhttps://could be enough for us at this moment.