Monks, I'm using the following to detect urls and make them clickable links. 
use URI;
use URI::Find;

find_uris($description, sub {
    my ($find_uri, $orig_uri) = @_;
    my $uri = URI->new( $orig_uri );
    $uri = $uri->canonical->as_string;
    return '<a href="' . $uri . '" target=_blank>' . $uri . '</a>';
});

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I'm having 2 issues with the following. First, some people leave off the "http://" and simply type "www." Secondly, believe it or not some people write their URLS in all caps. What is the best way to address these two issues?

In reply to Detecting URLs with URI by htmanning

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