format or validate author url from api.wordpress.org

[wycks]

The author url from api.wordpress.org does not seem to do full format checking. Not apparent in browsers since they will understand malformed urls but is a problem when outputting elsewhere.

Example:

<author type="string"><![CDATA[<a href="http:www.artificium.sk">Stanislav Gunčaga</a>]]></author> 

[nacin]

You'll have to try WordPress.com support. This Trac is for the open source project at WordPress.org.

[westi]

Actually he means api.wordpress.org :)

e.g.

​http://api.wordpress.org/plugins/info/1.0/WP-Custom-Pages.xml

[nacin]

Looks like this is data straight from the plugin: ​http://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/wp-custom-pages/trunk/wp-custom-pages.php.

Not sure if we should adjust the parser to correct this. It's quite the edge case.

[ocean90]

nacin: Maybe we can use the new malware check here? (​16923#comment:7 )

[nacin]

That's not the issue.. It's the validity of the URL: "http:" versus "​http://".

[Otto42]

Too edge case, I'd say. If we decide that we want to support odd formats for this sort of thing, we can make a new ticket in meta for it.