Trim URLs stripping http:

[Alex]

http://code.google.com/speed/page-speed/docs/filter-trim-urls.html

I see in the above documentation that external URLs with 'http:' on
the beginning are trimmed to '//external.tld'. While users browsing
my site are correctly redirected to the external site, wordpress'
internal error checking is catching them as invalid links.

Can someone explain why trimming was done in this fashion and let me
know if there is a config option to turn it off?

Thanks.

[Naomi Forman]

The trimming was done this way so as to make all urls as short as possible, thereby saving some bytes.  It's unfortunate that wordpress has this behavior, since according to spec those links are valid.  Thank you for letting us know about the problem.

The option to turn it off is to add:

ModPagespeedDisableFilters trim_urls

to your .htaccess or pagespeed.conf file.

-Naomi

[Alex]

Thanks for the info. Setting the option fixed the links so now
wordpress isn't flagging them as invalid.

I guess I'll see if I can file a bug with the Wordpress team.

-- Alex

[Richard Rabbat]

Alex,

looks like you submitted a bug report to Wordpress (http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/17953?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter)

but the issue is not in wordpress. Have you had more luck figuring out the culprit?

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