Change url before navigate to it

[PauloSigmund]

Hi all!

I am developing a new add-in for firefox, a firefox extension, and i need to check and url before navigate to it in order to correct it (if the url is bad-written like htxp://www.something.com it will correct to http://www.something.com)

What function should I handle to be able to do that?

Thanks for any help :D

[gits]

hi ...

for that purpose you may use different methods ... javascripts build in string-operations (substring, indexof, replace, join ... ) or use an regEx with the replace()-method (with regEx you may use the match-method to explode the string-value).

example:

// this replaces all s-chars in 'stest'
'stest'.replace(/s/g, 't');
 

try something and post back when you have more questions.

kind regards

[kovik]

That's quite an.... interesting idea for an add-on....

Make sure you use regex to check if it's a valid URL before messing around with it. There are a lot of example URL patterns online.