Remove forced http:// from links list

[watchmebe]

Title
Remove forced http:// from links list

Short, concise description of the idea
Remove the http:// that is forced into the URL of every link on the links list.

Full description of the ideaRight now, the links list forced http:// into the link. I would love to be able to include a "contact me" link that goes directly to my email and or/aim, but,

Comments

[sleepfighter]

This would be awesome.

[ex_uniquewo]

Not saying this is a bad idea, I'm all opinionless about this one in fact, but you already have direct links for IM services in your profile - and nifty security levels to control who can see your IM usernames I believe - so maybe the e-mail address displayed there could be into turned a direct link too (if properly encoded?).

[burr86]

It does, but only if you've chosen not to mangle the email address.

[ex_uniquewo]

I'm glad it doesn't then. So having it in your Links List would mean that it wouldn't be mangled or would it be possible to mangle it there too?

[watchmebe]

Well, if you put it up as a "Contact Me" link, and linked the email in a mailto: command, I don't think you'd have to mangle it.

[trempnvt]

I didn't even know that the links page did this...I could go for getting it removed, though.

[kunzite1]

when i click on a link on the internet i expect it to go to another webpage. not launch a specific program on my computer.

thx, but no thx.

[mskala]

If the link is a valid URL, then I don't think that's a legitimate complaint. Tell your browser not to open the program you don't want it to open - that's a client-side decision supposedly made by you, not something imposed on you by the page author.

[adudeabides]

What about other protocol links out there? Most links link to another page, but mailto links are quite common, not to mention bitorrent links and such...and clicking on those links launch specific programs (e-mail client, bitorrent clients, etc.).

[azurelunatic]

If it's a valid link to put in the body of a post, I would think that it should be a valid link to put in a links list. So unless the HTML cleaner is cleaning out these other sorts of links, I don't see why they should be barred from the links list.

[rebelsheart]

This has potential.