Yep, I understand and sympathise with the frustration.
On 15 July 2014 19:24, Wichert Akkerman <wich...@wiggy.net> wrote: > > > On 15 Jul 2014, at 11:22, Richard Jones <rich...@python.org> wrote: > > > > Hi, I just want to note that I'm aware of this issue and I have "do > something about it" in my long TODO. > > > > That link is malformed in any case - docutils just passes it on through > and you're just lucky that browsers will guess that it is supposed to have > a "http://" scheme on the front. PyPI does indeed check URL schemes in > links for security reasons. I guess I never though that I'd need to allow a > blank one - I'd have to think about the implications of allowing it. > > I don’t particularly mind PyPI refusing URL without a scheme – that is a > perfectly reasonably precaution. The problem is that there is no way at all > to see why PyPI was refusing to render my ReST without manually bisecting > the long description manually through its web-interface. > > Wichert. > >
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