Links redirect to google.com

[GoogleCodeExporter]

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Insert a link in a blip (ctl-L, cut/paste 'www.techcrunch.com').
2. Click it

What is the expected output? 
http://www.techcrunch.com

What do you see instead?
http://www.google.com/url?sa=D&q=www.techcrunch.com

Which doesn't work.  I have to explicitly include http:// to get

http://www.google.com/url?sa=D&q=http://www.techcrunch.com

Which does redirect.

However, I don't think it should redir at all. It seems unnecessary and
inefficient. 

CM

Original issue reported on code.google.com by christop...@gmail.com on 2 Jul 2009 at 12:55

[GoogleCodeExporter]

Thank you for reporting this issue.

It's unfortunate that you have to include http://. We will take a look at that.

Google redirects hyperlinks in certain cases as a security measure (I don't 
know the 
particulars about when and why we do this). It's not obvious to me that it's 
needed 
for wavesandbox.

I have reported both issues to the product team.

I close the issue in this issue tracker because the issue is about the product, 
not 
the federation protocol.

Original comment by so...@google.com on 19 Jul 2009 at 6:21

• Changed state: Invalid