[support] URL changes in 4.7

[Mark Shropshire]

Greg,

That would be great. Thanks for sharing!

Mark

On Jun 26, 2006, at 3:18 PM, Greg Knaddison - GVS wrote:

> On 6/26/06, Earl Miles <merlin at logrus.com> wrote:
>> Alejandro Exojo wrote:
>> > But your syntax is not HTML, so web browsers don't understand  
>> it, so
>> > it needs
>> > to be converted, _and_ the path needs to be modified prepending  
>> "/foo/bar/"
>> > to it. With just HTML, only the URL needs to be modified.
>> >
>> >
>> Well, yes, I'm proposing a filter. Filters by their nature have to be
>> converted to HTML on output. Drupal does a fair bit of filtering  
>> and can
>> do a lot more. I don't really understand the problem you have with  
>> this
>> proposed solution; just using HTML doesn't solve...well, anything,  
>> since
>> the base tag is no longer used the way it was in 4.6.
>
> I have done something similar with a modified version of URLFilter.
> The first thing it does is clean up all a href tags to make them
> absolute regardless of what the user entered.  It then goes on and
> does other things I´m not so proud of, but that the client demanded
> (inserted a target="_blank").  You could tweak that idea further to
> have it also filter all img tags to include the absolute URL (as folks
> in this thread have pointed out can be helpful for RSS syndication).
>
> I´d be happy to clean up that modified version and share it (in about
> three weeks, I´m currently on vacation...).  It´s relatively simple to
> do though, using the format of URLFilter as a basis for the work.
>
> Regards,
> Greg
>
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