[wishlist] urls not recognised unless preceded with http://

I wrote some fairly robust auto-linking code in PHP which you might consider porting to python. It's used by the Identi.ca web interface. You can get it here: http://iamseanmurphy.com/autolinking/demo.php

the attached branch works fine for me.

This bug was fixed in the package gwibber - 2.91.1-0ubuntu1

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gwibber (2.91.1-0ubuntu1) natty; urgency=low

  * New unstable release
    - statusnet:
      * Fixed an if statement that was causing errors to get lost in some cases
      * Enable the public stream by default, it is useful for dedicated
        status.net instances
    - facebook:
      * Ported to use the Graph API
      * Fixed rendering of "likes", and improved display of links, videos,
        photos, etc
      * Tell facebook not to prepend "is " to posts (LP: #674894)
    - dispatcher:
      * Handle python-indicate from karmic, the indicator doesn't send
        a timestamp
      * Fixed failure to notify for private messages (LP: #663377)
      * Treat strings starting with "www." as a href (LP: #324809)
    - client:
      * Merged in keyboard control from Michael Hall (LP: #621953)
      * Don't traceback older version of pygtk which didn't have gtk.InfoBar
      * added missing public.png icons, for 24x24 and 32x32
    - accounts: Show the auth button if we know there was an auth failure
 -- Ken VanDine <email address hidden> Tue, 16 Nov 2010 21:36:50 -0500