diff --git a/app/models/bulletin_link.rb b/app/models/bulletin_link.rb
index a3f2b1c..678d2bd 100644
--- a/app/models/bulletin_link.rb
+++ b/app/models/bulletin_link.rb
@@ -10,15 +10,16 @@ class BulletinLink
     
   belongs_to :bulletin
 
-  before_validation :add_http
+  before_save :add_http
   
   #validates :url, :presence => true, :format => /\A(http|https):\/\/(([a-z0-9]+([\-\.]{1}[a-z0-9]+)*\.[a-z]{2,5})|((25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)\.){3}(25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?))(:[0-9]{1,5})?(\/.*)?\Z/i
 
   protected
 
   def add_http
-    unless self.url[/^http:\/\//] || self.url[/^https:\/\//]
-      self.url = 'http://' + self.url
+    tmp = self.url
+    unless tmp.match(/^http(s|):\/\//) || tmp.blank? || tmp.start_with?('/')
+      self.url = 'http://' + tmp
     end
   end