/**
* Expand a potentially local URL to a fully-qualified URL. Assumes $wgServer
- * is correct. Also doesn't handle any type of relative URL except one
- * starting with a single "/": this won't work with current-path-relative URLs
- * like "subdir/foo.html", protocol-relative URLs like
- * "//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/", etc. TODO: improve this!
+ * and $wgProto are correct.
+ *
+ * @todo this won't work with current-path-relative URLs
+ * like "subdir/foo.html", etc.
*
* @param $url String: either fully-qualified or a local path + query
* @return string Fully-qualified URL
*/
function wfExpandUrl( $url ) {
- if( substr( $url, 0, 1 ) == '/' ) {
+ if( substr( $url, 0, 2 ) == '//' ) {
+ global $wgProto;
+ return $wgProto . ':' . $url;
+ } elseif( substr( $url, 0, 1 ) == '/' ) {
global $wgServer;
return $wgServer . $url;
} else {