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Re:In search of the perfect URL validation regex by eli on Monday June 23, 2014 @07:44AM (#7931358)
I still don't quite follow the purpose of the validation. Is it against malicious use? In normal use, I would think that pretty much any URL that's good enough for the browser sending it would be good enough for the link shortener.
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Re:In search of the perfect URL validation regex by mathias on Monday June 23, 2014 @09:11AM (#7931709)
But then you might end up shortening things like `about:blank` by accident.
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