Linksearch cannot handle protocol-relative URLs

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Example: 
https://wikipediatools.appspot.com/linksearch.jsp?link=translatewiki.net

There should be a few hundreds links, it shouldn't timeout; and even in that 
case a partial output could be provided. Perhaps still needs to use APIs?

Original issue reported on code.google.com by nemow...@gmail.com on 6 Sep 2012 at 9:32

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This one isn't a timeout. Stack trace from server logs:

java.net.MalformedURLException: no protocol: 
//translatewiki.net/wiki/Special:AdvancedTranslate?module=words
    at java.net.URL.<init>(URL.java:583)
    at java.net.URL.<init>(URL.java:480)
    at java.net.URL.<init>(URL.java:429)
    at org.wikipedia.Wiki.linksearch(Wiki.java:4160)
    at org.wikipedia.servlets.XWikiLinksearch.linksearch(XWikiLinksearch.java:106)
    at org.wikipedia.servlets.XWikiLinksearch.doGet(XWikiLinksearch.java:86)
    ...

This isn't really my fault. I should really catch exceptions instead of using a 
static handler. 

Original comment by stop.squark on 6 Sep 2012 at 11:33

• Changed title: Linksearch cannot handle protocol-relative URLs

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Thank you for investigating. This is a bug in java.net, you mean? Is it filed?
Perhaps API should also provide a way to work around this, I filed 
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40052 to find out.

Original comment by nemow...@gmail.com on 6 Sep 2012 at 12:39

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Google App Engine uses a legacy (and stale, because Oracle sucks) version of 
Java. I can work around this problem easily.

Original comment by stop.squark on 7 Sep 2012 at 7:24

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>I should really catch exceptions instead of using a static handler. 
Done in r90.
>I can work around this problem easily.
Done in r91.

Original comment by stop.squark on 21 Sep 2012 at 12:59

• Changed state: Fixed