Url validation is part of Commons Validator rather than Struts so it might be more appropriate to raise it there.
Also, this is subject to an outstanding bug: http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=30686 Niall ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Bowers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 12, 2004 6:49 PM Subject: URL validation > There was a very good conversation in April on this list discussing > URL validation, in particular, is an http URL valid if no path is > specified? For example http://google.com. > > See this link: http://www.mail-archive.com/dev@struts.apache.org/msg00037.html > for more detail. > > It seemed like the consensus was that it would be good if this > behavior could be turned on or off. What is the current status of > this? It looks like a patch was submitted related to this issue: > http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=28190, though it's > not obvious that this would solve the problem. This patch would tell > us exactly why http://google.com failed, but it does not seem to > provide the flexibility to just allow http://google.com to succeed. > > Is there an interest in modifying the url validator to take an > variable called lenientPath? That way if the path ends with a / or is > null it would still pass? > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
