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==Welcome to Vesper's Scratchspace~==

Today's menu: [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Labs/Ubiquity Ubiquity] URL noun type (and a basic function that uses it)

The regex in the code more or less says this:

 (some protocol name) :// (a string) [. (a string)] [/ (a string)] (maybe / if you want)

Items in square brackets can be repeated. So,

 pasta://a.taste.from.little.italy

is a valid url, according to this model. And, so is this:

 universe://milky.way/earth/north-america/canada/ontario/

This is not valid.

 a://b.c/d.e

All of these choices were arbitrarily chosen by me. I'll be pursuing the community for a better description of what a URL should and should not be.

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 var noun_type_url = {
  _name: "Valid URL",
 
  suggest: function( text, html ) {
    if (!text)
      return [ CmdUtils.makeSugg("http://") ];
 
 
    if(/^[A-Za-z0-9]+:\/\/([A-Za-z0-9_-]+)(\.([A-Za-z0-9_-]+))+(\/([A-Za-z0-9_-~]+))+[/]?$/.test(text)){
      return [ CmdUtils.makeSugg(text) ];
    }
 
    return [ CmdUtils.makeSugg("http://" + text) ];
  }
};
 
 
 CmdUtils.CreateCommand({
   name: "url",
   takes: {"your shout": noun_type_url},
   preview: function( pblock, theShout ) {
     pblock.innerHTML = "Will verify: " + theShout.text;
   },
   execute: function( theShout ) {
     var msg = theShout.text;
     displayMessage( msg );
   }
 })