Re: Bug in url_regex pattern matching?

At 14:46 26.01.98 +0000, Nick O'Brien wrote:
>Now in the the banned-list file I had the line:
>
>http://www.sex*
>
>However I discovered that sites like
>http://www.sedon.co.uk/ were being denied as well.
>
>Is this a bug in the url_regex pattern matching mechanism or simply some
>misunderstanding on my part about how it should work?

The latter. :-) The regular expression "x*" means "zero or more times the
letter x", so your pattern matches "http://www.se", "http://www.sex",
"http://www.sexx", "http://www.sexxx", and so on. Just omit the asterisk
and you should be fine. (Btw, the dot is the wildcard character, so it
would also match, for example, "http://www+sex" or "http://wwwisex", but
these cases should be rare.)

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