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Re:In search of the perfect URL validation regex by mcpherrinm on Sunday June 22, 2014 @05:47PM (#7929342)
This is the context of a URL shortener, and one of the goals seems to prohibit bad IPs, not all IPs. Bad seems to be defined here as ones in the private IP spaces, and those in multicast space, etc.
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Re:In search of the perfect URL validation regex by lucb1e on Sunday June 22, 2014 @06:08PM (#7929393)
Okay, that makes sense!
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