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feat(links): add httpsAutoLinks option (rebased #998 onto develop) #1051

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5 changes: 5 additions & 0 deletions src/options.js
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Expand Up @@ -51,6 +51,11 @@ function getDefaultOpts (simple) {
describe: 'Turn on/off GFM autolink style',
type: 'boolean'
},
httpsAutoLinks: {
defaultValue: false,
describe: 'Use \'https://\' for auto-generated links',
type: 'boolean'
},
literalMidWordUnderscores: {
defaultValue: false,
describe: 'Parse midword underscores as literal underscores',
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6 changes: 3 additions & 3 deletions src/subParsers/makehtml/link.js
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Expand Up @@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ showdown.subParser('makehtml.link', function (text, options, globals) {
let angleBracketsLinksRegex = /<(((?:https?|ftp):\/\/|www\.)[^'">\s]+)>/gi;
text = text.replace(angleBracketsLinksRegex, function (wholeMatch, url, urlStart) {
let text = url;
url = (urlStart === 'www.') ? 'http://' + url : url;
url = (urlStart === 'www.') ? (options.httpsAutoLinks ? 'https://' : 'http://') + url : url;
return writeAnchorTag ('angleBrackets', angleBracketsLinksRegex, wholeMatch, text, null, url);
});

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// we copy the treated url to the text variable
let txt = url;
// finally, if it's a www shortcut, we prepend http
url = (urlPrefix === 'www.') ? 'http://' + url : url;
// finally, if it's a www shortcut, we prepend http(s)
url = (urlPrefix === 'www.') ? (options.httpsAutoLinks ? 'https://' : 'http://') + url : url;

// url part is done so let's take care of text now
// we need to escape the text (because of links such as www.example.com/foo__bar__baz)
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2 changes: 2 additions & 0 deletions test/functional/makehtml/cases/features/#806.https-auto-link.html
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<p><a href="https://www.foobar.com">www.foobar.com</a></p>
<p>This is a link <a href="https://www.foobar.com">www.foobar.com</a></p>
3 changes: 3 additions & 0 deletions test/functional/makehtml/cases/features/#806.https-auto-link.md
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www.foobar.com

This is a link <www.foobar.com>
2 changes: 2 additions & 0 deletions test/functional/makehtml/testsuite.features.js
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Expand Up @@ -65,6 +65,8 @@ describe('makeHtml() features testsuite', function () {
converter = new showdown.Converter({simpleLineBreaks: true});
} else if (testsuite[i].name === '#318.simpleLineBreaks-does-not-work-with-chinese-characters') {
converter = new showdown.Converter({simpleLineBreaks: true});
} else if (testsuite[i].name === '#806.https-auto-link') {
converter = new showdown.Converter({simplifiedAutoLink: true, httpsAutoLinks: true});
} else if (testsuite[i].name === 'simpleLineBreaks-handle-html-pre') {
converter = new showdown.Converter({simpleLineBreaks: true});
} else if (testsuite[i].name === 'excludeTrailingPunctuationFromURLs-option') {
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