Is it possible to parse links in the message field?

[mietcls]

Enhancement

Is it possible to parse links in the message field?

We can't integrate a full-blown messaging system at this point, and it might still take a while before we can do so. However, helping people complete their withdrawn publications and datasets is not very user-friendly as the links provided by the helpdesk are not clickable.

Is this low-hanging fruit that can improve the situation temporarily without too much maintenance?

Case 1: HTTPS

Case 2: bit.ly

[nicolasfranck]

some "markdown" interpretation, like github does? Of course that will have some unexpected results too (that ** being interpreted as "bold")

[mietcls]

That would actually be nice. These are (mostly) temporary messages in the back office that would not be published to the outside world / the front office.

[mietcls]

However; it's only nice if it can be built with durability in mind within a reasonable amount of time, without a lot of maintenance / bugs afterwards.

[nics]

braindead quick and dirty solution: strip tags for security reasons; loop over all words in the message; add link if url.Parse succeeds; render message as html

[nicolasfranck]

😆

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"net/url"
)

func main() {
	u, err := url.Parse("1")
	fmt.Printf("url: %+v, err: %+v\n", u, err)
}

returns

url: 1, err: <nil>

[nicolasfranck]

Better with url.ParseRequestURI. Apparently we use url.Parse a lot ..

[netsensei]

This is a safe HTML sanitizer: https://github.com/microcosm-cc/bluemonday

This library is policy based. Comes with a few pre-defined policies like strict (absolutely no tags whatsoever) and a sensible default (whitelist sensible tags like bold or italic). You can also define your own policy / whitelist of allowed elements.

It does URL parsing intelligently via p.RequireParseableURLs(true)