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Re: address@hidden: 23.0.0; (thing-at-point 'url) returns invalid urls]
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Davis Herring |
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Re: address@hidden: 23.0.0; (thing-at-point 'url) returns invalid urls] |
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Tue, 4 Sep 2007 15:37:08 -0700 (PDT) |
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> To require that a url must contain a '.' in it is able to reduce the
> risk of returning random urls by more than 90%.
I would test for a '.', and for a '/', and for an explicit scheme (some,
like "mailto:";, do not come along with slashes). If any of those pass,
it's probably (that is, it is IMHO sufficiently rare that it won't be) a
URL.
Davis
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