https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29497

Brion Vibber <[email protected]> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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            Summary|Parser doesn't support      |Parser doesn't support
                   |protocol relative external  |protocol relative external
                   |links                       |links in single-bracketed
                   |                            |or free link syntax

--- Comment #1 from Brion Vibber <[email protected]> 2011-06-20 17:32:41 UTC 
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Updated summary to clarify that this is about inline links in wiki text
documents.

Bug 20342 is primarily about URLs generated by/for user interface components
and whatnot, where currently we would tend to select either 'http' or 'https'
forms but are looking for ways to avoid splitting caches so the same HTML
output can be stored and used for both.

For wikitext-formatted messages, it _might_ be useful to be able to pass in
such URLs directly into things using '[$1 blah]'.

For documents in general, that's a bit more fragile; when we use
protocol-relative links we're saying "we know FOR SURE that both this site and
the other site we're talking about are available on both http and https, and
that the correct thing to do is to send you to the same protocol on the other
site".

IMO that's a bit flaky -- folks are probably more likely to accidentally put in
a link that doesn't actually work in one mode or the other without testing it
correctly -- but it might be a necessary evil.

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