When I originally wrote this module, this functionality was not in any existing module. I just went to the extlink module and it says it now offers this functionality.

This needs to be researched more and determined if this module should be abandoned.

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vm commented

I can confirm that the extlink module allows a message to be shown (if wanted) when a user is navigating away to a link outside of the domain in which the link is in.

with extlink, one also has the ability to tell it to ignore subdomains and treat them as a single domain. which is quite the nice feature when using the subdomain.module or multisites in subdomains.

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zzolo commented

@VM, do you know if it accomplishes all this without JS (or at least degrade gracefully).

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zzolo commented

After looking at the code, extlink is all done with Javascript, meaning that it will not work for all clients/users. this means that I will:

* Not abandon this module yet. And update the project page to suggest extlink, but point out its restrictions.
* Try to work with extlink to make it degradable, as it is a more established module.

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zzolo commented
Status: Active » Fixed

I talked with @quicksketch, maintainer of extlink. He is set on just using JS, which I don't like, but as he pointed out and after I looked myself, the 508 website actually only uses JS for this functionality. :(

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.