Jitsi-meet: Android/Ios app requires full URL

[Cjen1]

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Description

The Room/URL input box on the app doesn't correctly parse URLs.

Current behavior

When you put in for example meet.google.com/roomname, you connect to roomname on the default jitsi server.

This can be worked around by prepending https:// which then connects correctly.

Expected Behavior

connect to roomname on the meet.google.com server

Possible Solution

Try to ping/handshake with the uri up to the first / i.e. in this case the meet.google.com server.

## Steps to reproduce

Environment details

Android and IOS display this behavior.

[luixxiul]

You mean the default server preference inside the setting is not enough/intuitive?

[Cjen1]

@luixxiul Not exactly...

So when you open the app at the top there is a bar with the tag meeting in it.

What I would like is for it to be slightly more intuitive to go to a custom server.

That is by automatically adding the https:// when required.

The current behavior is an odd hybrid approach.

Connecting to meet.google.com/roomname connects to roomname on the default server, while I would have expected it to either connect to a room called meet.google.com/roomname on the default server, or roomname on meet.google.com.

This could be just that my mental model doesn't quite align with the core devs.

Just as an FYI I love the service currently, the link connecting is fantastically simple (my granny has managed it at this point :) ), just inside the app it can be slightly odd to connect to a given URL.

[saghul]

This is indeed a bug. We should be able to infer the URL scheme even if omitted.

[rasos]

Yes, this needs to be fixed, as we have users who are lazy and do not prepend https:// and then wonder that users end up in two separate rooms: on our server and on meet.jit.si.

Determining the foreign sever whether we have a slash in the name is however a contradiction to allow slahes in room names #6597. We really need to check if a jitsi server responds.

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[Cjen1]

Bump to check the progress of this? It should be a relatively quick fix, but unfortunately for this and other reasons (mainly aws killing my server) I've personally had to move to other products for videoconferencing.