URL of Homepage for user's info - bad check. [#6697]

I tried to edit my user info and set my homepage URL at the drupal.org site.
I set my homepage URL to be
http://www.pobox.com/~kwerle/

It complained that it was not a valid URL.

Looks like there is a bad logic check in there somewhere. I'm absolutely guessing it doesn't like the ~ character...

Comments

Comment #1

TDobes CreditAttribution: TDobes commented 26 March 2004 at 09:01

Component:

user system

» profile.module

You are correct... the ~ is rejected by the valid_url function in common.inc. Adding the ~ should be fairly easy... but, while we're at it, what other characters should we be adding that are legal in URL's?

Comment #2

Dries CreditAttribution: Dries commented 27 March 2004 at 09:34

I slightly improved the URL validation function: it now accepts https:// and ftp:// as valid protocols, it is no longer case-sensitive and will allow special characters like '~'. It can be improved further but at least the most annoying bugs have been taken care of.