GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 341874
The detection of http:// misses some common and legal URL's
Last modified: 2006-05-16 06:13:03 UTC
Please describe the problem: http:// detection is messed up Steps to reproduce: Create a spreadsheet with the following URL's http://www.pathfriends.org/ http://www.pathfriends.org/scp http://www.pathfriends.org/scp/ http://www.pathfriends.org/scp/join.html Then save the document as HTML Actual results: I'd expect ALL of the URL's to show up as links. Instead only some do, inconsistently. In particular the "http://www.pathfriends.org/scp/" form, which is technically correct, is ignored. The trailing "/" is actually part of the URL, according to w3c standards. Expected results: Does this happen every time? Other information:
I cannot reproduce this. Could you please attach a gnumeric file and the html file generated from it?
Created attachment 65535 [details] Created with Gnumeric
Created attachment 65536 [details] Created with Gnumeric from the .xls
Which version of gnumeric is this? I don't understand why any of them exports. The latex exporter should only export links as links if they are in fact entered as hyperlinks (via insert hyperlink). None of the links seem to be of that kind (unless something gets messed up in the excel export.
1.6.1, as it says in the bug header. I dunno about any of what you said: I just entered the URLs and expected consistent behavior.
I only saw the 1.6.x... So you entered the URL's in gnumeric. Saved it as an XL file, reopened it and then exported to HTML? How did you enter the URL's, simply as text in the cells or as hyperlinks using the "insert hyperlink"? I am sure that we are really observing a bug with the XL export/import which only becomes visible in the later html export.
Our XL export (at least in 1.6.0) looses the hyperlinks. So I suspect that you in fact used "insert hyperlink" to enter a few links. The saved the file as XL. Then reopened it and added some more. Finally you exported as html. Then the just entered ones are exported as links, the older ones just as text. You saved the file as XL again to provide it to us, so all the hyperlinks are gone now. If this suspicion is correct than this is really 81718 Note that the html exporter simply uses the hyperlink information specified in the gnumeric file. It does not actively try to detect any hyperlinks.
Yeah, might be. But it sure creates an inconsistency. I have no idea how to turn non-links into links, and links into non-links at this point. I'd venture to say that, of all the exporters, the HTML one perhaps should be detecting links. What good is a HTML page if the links don't work?
To enter links in a gnumeric cell, right click on the cell and select "Hyperlink". Since a spread sheet itself can have proper links there is little reason to try to detect whether the cell content happens o resemble a link. This definitely looks like it is really a duplicate of 81718. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 81718 ***