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Bug 12810 - Special:Linksearch should default to all protocols (protocol-less column for externallinks)
Special:Linksearch should default to all protocols (protocol-less column for ...
Status: NEW
Product: MediaWiki
Classification: Unclassified
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Reported: 2008-01-27 04:34 UTC by MER-C
Modified: 2011-04-14 15:11 UTC (History)
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Description MER-C 2008-01-27 04:34:09 UTC 
Special:Linksearch should default to all protocols instead of just http. This quirk is not documented anywhere, especially in the default [[MediaWiki:Linksearch-text]]. As it stands, this allows linkspammers to evade scrutiny by placing https links.

Example query: [[Special:Linksearch/*.spam.example.com]] should pick up the link to https://spam.example.com/blah I placed in my personal sandbox, but I have to search [[Special:Linksearch/https://*.spam.example.com]] to pick up this link.
Comment 1 Brion Vibber 2008-02-02 00:27:14 UTC 
Currently you'd have to do separate queries for every possible protocol, and paging the list wouldn't be cleanly possible.

To work cleanly, another index field would have to be added to the externallinks table which doesn't include the protocol.
Comment 2 Raimond Spekking 2008-09-26 07:06:34 UTC 
Extensions is now part of MediaWiki core (1.14alpha) -> changing product and component
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