WordPress automatically sets the website URL of an user's profile to http://

[peaceablewhale]

When an user does not have a website URL in his profile, WordPress automatically sets it to "​http://". The expected behavior should be an empty string.

[Denis-de-Bernardy]

Moving to future pending patch.

[josephscott]

The edit_user() function in wp-admin/includes/user.php hard codes a '​http://' to the front of the 'Website' field if the regex for the scheme (http,ftp,irc,telnet,etc.) fails. An additional check is needed to see if the field is empty.

I've added a simple patch that runs the scheme regex check only if the field is not empty.

At best this is a minor inconvenience so I'm going to bump this to the 2.9 milestone.

[mrmist]

Patch works for new users, though existing users that have had the ​http:// bit saved already still show it. Potentially could be worth validating the saved output to strip it.

[josephscott]

True. I wasn't going to worry about that. But if we're going to wait for 2.9 for this anyway there will lots of WP blogs with 'http://' saved. Added new diff to look for 'http://' and force it an empty string.

[ryan]

(In [11320]) Don't set user's url to ​http://. Props josephscott. fixes #9804