[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #25385: Validate URL for user comments in Comment Form

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#25385: Validate URL for user comments in Comment Form
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 Reporter:  nofearinc     |       Owner:
     Type:  defect (bug)  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal        |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Comments      |     Version:
 Severity:  normal        |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  has-patch     |
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Comment (by nofearinc):

 Replying to [comment:4 mark-k]:
 > 1. What is the real life problem that invalid author urls cause?
 More spam due to the lack of validation, wrong URLs when someone enters
 "example.com" and it leads to an inner page, typos while entering/pasting
 URLs, etc.

 Replying to [comment:4 mark-k]:
 > 4. If I misspelled and wrote htt://examle.com, I would need to reenter
 the whole comment.
 Testing with Chrome, Firefox and Opera here the "back" button keeps the
 original comment content. Might be wrong, but most browsers started doing
 it at some point of time to prevent that sort of troubles.
 You're definitely right about the lack of a useful mechanism to get back
 though.

 Replying to [comment:4 mark-k]:
 > That being said, maybe it is a good idea to just remove the url data if
 it is invalid, maybe even try to auto-correct problems like in point 4.
 That's also one of the possible ways to fix that, yes.

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