Add additional protocols to URI schemes #6072

maiki · Dec 19, 2017

Posting this after a short discussion: please create links from gopher URLs.

SDF runs a prominent gopher server, and we share the URLs constantly, but none of them are links. We currently have http, https ~~and ftp~~. It would help us if gopher were added. ^_^

Adding a request to add ftp and irc as well.

I'd like to see this as well.

crcx · Dec 19, 2017

I'd like to see this as well.

Easy and welcome addition

jamestomasino · Dec 19, 2017

Easy and welcome addition

For anyone interested, as far as I understand this is where the change would have to be made. Something like turning that https? into https?|gopher.

I have not tried it, mind you, and am not planning to (not going to touch twitter projects), but if anyone's up for it, I hope the above helps.

Might add ftp to that aswell, because that does not seem to be supported either (just tried on my own instance running 2.1).

algernon · Dec 20, 2017

For anyone interested, as far as I understand this is where the change would have to be made. Something like turning that https? into https?|gopher.

I have not tried it, mind you, and am not planning to (not going to touch twitter projects), but if anyone's up for it, I hope the above helps.

Might add ftp to that aswell, because that does not seem to be supported either (just tried on my own instance running 2.1).

A huge +1 for this.

LeeteqXV · Dec 20, 2017

A huge +1 for this.

@algernon, to clarify for my own knowledge, the Mastodon project pulls in that library to parse URLs? I don't know much about how it is built.

💐 for your thoughts. ^_^

maiki · Dec 20, 2017

@algernon, to clarify for my own knowledge, the Mastodon project pulls in that library to parse URLs? I don't know much about how it is built.

💐 for your thoughts. ^_^

yeah this would require some changes to https://github.com/twitter/twitter-text, which we use for URL extraction. Here are the relevant lines:

https://github.com/twitter/twitter-text/blob/master/rb/lib/twitter-text/regex.rb#L246-L257

nightpool · Dec 20, 2017

yeah this would require some changes to https://github.com/twitter/twitter-text, which we use for URL extraction. Here are the relevant lines:

https://github.com/twitter/twitter-text/blob/master/rb/lib/twitter-text/regex.rb#L246-L257

Would be great to get dat:// URI support. I’ve already come across numerous people posting dat links that I had to manually copy and paste to access.

and maybe ipfs:// too, though it looks like they might still be trying to figure out some details of the implementation of how their URIs work. (ipfs/go-ipfs#1678)

wakest · Jan 13, 2018

Would be great to get dat:// URI support. I’ve already come across numerous people posting dat links that I had to manually copy and paste to access.

and maybe ipfs:// too, though it looks like they might still be trying to figure out some details of the implementation of how their URIs work. (ipfs/go-ipfs#1678)

I think dat and ipfs would be great additions, but neither are listed on the IANA scheme list. In other news, I doubt we will be able to send any additional schemes upstream to Twitter.

These observations combined leas me to think we need to do two broad things:

Create a replacement text parsing library
Arbitrarily add schemes to it (like ipsf://), which means maintain a list

Thoughts? 😃

I am not trying to start a new project and recruit folks, just thinking about solving this particular problem. Brainstorm with me!

maiki · Jan 13, 2018

I think dat and ipfs would be great additions, but neither are listed on the IANA scheme list. In other news, I doubt we will be able to send any additional schemes upstream to Twitter.

These observations combined leas me to think we need to do two broad things:

Create a replacement text parsing library
Arbitrarily add schemes to it (like ipsf://), which means maintain a list

Thoughts? 😃

I am not trying to start a new project and recruit folks, just thinking about solving this particular problem. Brainstorm with me!

@maiki My first thought was how difficult is it to implement those URIs that frankly are not used much outside of a small community. I looked at the linked code in the twitter-text link and it looked fairly straight-forward (I was weirded out a bit 'coz my brain thot it was reading python and I don't know ruby..).
Then I thought of some (to me) fun URIs if we had authentication down solid.
To be truly painless to extend to new URIs cheaply it would have to be reworked though vs just adding cases? < update: duh, as maiki just indicated above...>

gemlog · Jan 13, 2018

@maiki My first thought was how difficult is it to implement those URIs that frankly are not used much outside of a small community. I looked at the linked code in the twitter-text link and it looked fairly straight-forward (I was weirded out a bit 'coz my brain thot it was reading python and I don't know ruby..).
Then I thought of some (to me) fun URIs if we had authentication down solid.
To be truly painless to extend to new URIs cheaply it would have to be reworked though vs just adding cases? < update: duh, as maiki just indicated above...>

It would be nice to be able to click on a magnet URL and get some kind of response, too. Maybe a pop-up button to copy it automatically into the local clipboard, for pasting elsewhere?

virtadpt · Jan 13, 2018

It would be nice to be able to click on a magnet URL and get some kind of response, too. Maybe a pop-up button to copy it automatically into the local clipboard, for pasting elsewhere?

@virtadpt Actually, I could have sworn that you can open magnet links that have a "open with" dialogue, in Firefox at least iirc. That would be awesome!

But otherwise, definitely big +1 from me too.

JamesHealdUK · Jan 14, 2018

@virtadpt Actually, I could have sworn that you can open magnet links that have a "open with" dialogue, in Firefox at least iirc. That would be awesome!

But otherwise, definitely big +1 from me too.

+1 on magnet://, gopher://, ipfs://, irc://.

Really not convinced about ftp:// though. This terrible Frankenstein of a protocol should have died a long time ago. May I suggest sftp:// instead?

rysiekpl · Jan 14, 2018

+1 on magnet://, gopher://, ipfs://, irc://.

Really not convinced about ftp:// though. This terrible Frankenstein of a protocol should have died a long time ago. May I suggest sftp:// instead?

+1 on more extensible URI handling.

cheesegrits · Jan 14, 2018

+1 on more extensible URI handling.

wait does #7810 mean you implemented this?!

wakest · Jun 26, 2018

wait does #7810 mean you implemented this?!

"Add dat, dweb, ipfs, ipns, ssb, gopher protocols to URL extractor"

nightpool · Jun 26, 2018

"Add dat, dweb, ipfs, ipns, ssb, gopher protocols to URL extractor"

maiki changed the title from Add gopher to URI schemes to Add additional protocols to URI schemes Dec 20, 2017

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Add dat:// and gopher:// to URL extractor
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