shawn Posted March 21, 2013 Report Share Posted March 21, 2013 There's an amazingly annoying trend on newer sites to remove the protocol portion of the URL (http:, https:, ftp:) leaving URIs that have only something like: //example.com/path/file.ext Google is just one example of the major companies who are using this format in their recent downloads. Picasa, for example. This method is used by many websites now to minimize errors when the potential to switch back and forth between SSL and non-SSL sites is likely. Essentially, this would work by checking the URL that is in the download (and other URL sources such as variables) to see if the first two characters are "//" and if so, it inserts "http:" there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomorrow Posted April 27, 2013 Report Share Posted April 27, 2013 +1 for this request. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shawn Posted April 27, 2013 Author Report Share Posted April 27, 2013 Another nifty feature (related to this) would be if the first character of a variable in the *download* box is a slash but the second character is NOT a slash, use the host/domain that that variable was based on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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