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Status: Duplicate
Merged: issue 42940
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Closed: Aug 2016
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OS: Linux
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Type: Bug



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When copying just the IP or hostname from the omnibar, http:// is still added to the clipboard

Reported by drwi...@gmail.com, Aug 2 2016 
UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/51.0.2704.106 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. Go to any website HTTP website, say http://www.example.com/foobar
2. Select & Copy just the hostname. (www.example.com in this case)
3. Paste 

What is the expected behavior?
To paste "www.example.com"

What went wrong?
Instead "http://www.example.com/" is pasted

Did this work before? N/A 

Chrome version: 51.0.2704.106  Channel: stable
OS Version: 16.04
Flash Version: Shockwave Flash 22.0 r0

As a developer, this is incredibly inconvenient to select just the part that I want, and to keep additional cruft getting added. I'd be fine with the behavior being optional.

Comment 1 by pkasting@chromium.org, Aug 18 2016

Mergedinto: 42940
Status: Duplicate (was: Unconfirmed)
We wouldn't support an option to toggle this sort of small detail.

This is, admittedly, inconvenient for developers, mostly folks who use ping (I wouldn't mind if "ping http://foo.com/" Just Worked, though I can construct an argument for why it doesn't).  We did this after a variety of people trying to copy hostnames into places like Gmail and such no longer got the scheme they wanted, but it's one of those magic behaviors that's a downside of stripping the scheme to begin with.

In the end, at least to date, we've decided the upsides of this outweigh the downsides, but I am sympathetic to the frustration with it :/
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