[ckan-dev] URIs in log messages - overenthusiastic validator?

[Rufus Pollock]

On 26 January 2011 19:51, William Waites <ww at styx.org> wrote:
> I just repaired the contact information in
>
> http://ckan.net/package/postal-codes-de
>
> it doens't make sense to put an http:// URL in an email
> field. This poses a particular problem when transforming
> the data into RDF.

Strictly it doesn't but past discussion about reached the consensus
that we could 'abuse' the email field to have a url as well as email.
Going forward we should perhaps name this 'contact info' (email or
url) ...

> However when I tried to explain in the log message what
> I had done and why, it complained to me that URIs weren't
> allowed (I had pasted in the old value). Is there any
> reason for this? It seems quite valid and innocuous, even
> useful to do this.

Yes, it kills pretty much 95% of all spam.

Rufus