Show URLs in TODO/NOTE as hyperlinks in the web view. (Closes: #610220)

git-svn-id: svn+ssh://svn.debian.org/svn/secure-testing@28796 e39458fd-73e7-0310-bf30-c45bca0a0e42

1 files changed, 15 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/lib/python/web_support.py b/lib/python/web_support.py
index 72a4932660..f1663a33e9 100644
--- a/lib/python/web_support.py
+++ b/lib/python/web_support.py
@@ -453,12 +453,21 @@ def make_table(contents, caption=None, replacement=None, introduction=None):
 
 def make_pre(lines):
     """Creates a pre-formatted text area."""
-    r = []
-    append = r.append
-    for l in lines:
-        append(l)
-        append('\n')
-    return tag('pre', ''.join(r))
+    pre = []
+    append = pre.append
+    for line in lines:
+        # turn https:// and http:// into links
+        results=re.search("(.*)(?P<url>https?://[^\s]+)(.*)", line)
+        if results:
+            for group in results.groups():
+                if group.startswith('http://') or group.startswith('https://'):
+                    append(A(group))
+                else:
+                    append(group)
+        else:
+            append(line)
+        append(BR())
+    return tag('pre', pre)
 
 def make_menu(convert, *entries):
     """Creates an unnumbered list of hyperlinks.