[MSHARED-611] Drop any href validation and pass as-is

• Type: Task
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: maven-reporting-impl 2.4
• Fix Version/s: maven-reporting-impl 3.0
• Component/s: maven-reporting-impl
• Assignee: Michael Osipov
• Reporter: Michael Osipov
• Created: 14/Jan/17 21:47
• Updated: 04/Feb/17 21:10
• Resolved: 04/Feb/17 20:15

Description

The current href validation causes several issues, e.g., MSHARED-609, or just the fact that we are not able to properly validate valid links/hrefs because there is a too broad variety of schemes and styles. We can use at most java.net.URI, but still HTML's href is far more permissive. At the end, we drop valid values like ssh://, sftp://, smb://, s3://, and many more without even telling the user.

We shall stop doing that and simply pass the value as-is, the href is now at the discretion of the site author.

Issue Links

• incorporates: MSHARED-489 AbstractMavenReportRenderer#linkPatternedText ignores name if href is invalid
• incorporates: MSHARED-609 Partially revert MSHARED-429
• supercedes: MSHARED-429 Supposedly invalid URLs are rendered as plain text