Normalize URLs

Normalize URLs makes WordPress to play more nicely regarding URLs in HTTP Requests.

Author:hakre (profile at wordpress.org)
WordPress version required:2.9
WordPress version tested:3.1-alpha
Plugin version:1.1
Added to WordPress repository:21-07-2010
Last updated:21-07-2010
Warning! This plugin has not been updated in over 2 years. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress.
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Normalize URLs makes WordPress to play more nicely regarding URLs in HTTP Requests. Dual Mode Plugin, can be used as a standard Plugin or as a Must-Use Plugin.

Features

  • Fixes various problems at once.
  • Makes your blog more compatible with HTTP, the protocol for any Website.
  • Full HTTP 1.0/1.1 compliance.
  • No need for you to wait for core updates.
  • Even 3.0.1 will not fix all of the problems this plugin fixes.
  • Free.

Background

URLs as resource locating URIs can be written in many different ways to describe the exact same location. The Normalize URLs Plugin ensures that WordPress plays more nicely with URIs/URLs as discussed in RFC 3986 (URI)
and RFC 2616 (HTTP).

Uniform Resource Identifier (URI): Generic Syntax
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986

Hypertext Transfer Protocol — HTTP/1.1
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616

Integration

Normalize URLs works out of the box and has no options to configure.

Document Scope

This file readme.txt has been created in the intention to provide data to be displayed on the wordpress.org plugin repository website. As always, for anything concrete and precise, refer to the plugin sourcecode itself, it ships with phpdoc style comments.


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