On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 2:13 PM, Michael Fötsch <[email protected]> wrote:

> Mark wrote:
> > Not sure why you need internet connection here...  why would outside
> email addresses be involved in your intranet installation?
>
> I don't need an internet connection at all, but Validate::email(true) needs
> one for performing the domain check.
>
> All employees have email addresses like [email protected]. These email
> addresses would be accepted without problems by the *internal* SMTP server
> and delivered to the internal email clients.
>
> But, as I said, I never get this far, because Validate::email(true) tries
> to ping company.com or send some request or whatever, which times out
> after 30 seconds and Validate::email declares the address invalid.
>
> The reason the request times out is because there is no host named "
> company.com" *inside* the intranet (and why should there be any?), and the
> proxy blocks the domain check.
>
> Validate::email without "true" works flawlessly.
>

 Hmm, it just does a DNS lookup AFAIK.  Are you running DNS inside?


> > I run an internal link shortener based on tighturl that is the only valid
> link shortener in my installation.
>
> Sounds good. Can you configure this in config.php?
>

Nope :).   I modified the database users table urlshorteningservice column's
default value to be my internal link shortener.  I modified the
actions/othersettings.php file to only display my internal link shortener as
an option.


> > Rejected where and when doing what?
>
> Whenever a notice contains a hyperlink such as "http://hostname/xy"; or "
> http://10.129.12.34";, it's not rendered as a hyperlink but as plain old
> text.
>
> The regexes in laconica require a top-level domain. In the "
> http://hostname"; case, there is no top-level domain, and in the "
> http://10.129.12.34";, it thinks "34" is the top-level domain, but it's not
> one of the recognized ones.
>

 I'm sure the devs will accept any improvements to the URL recognition
regex(es).  That's a sticky issue.


> Kind Regards,
> M.F.
>
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