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[Christopher R. Merlo]

On 2004-05-03 14:45 -0400, James B. Wetterau Jr. <james at surgam.net> wrote:

> A Perl expert of some repute did the hard work of reading all the
> relevant protocol specs, BNF notation, etc., and came up with this
> valid URL parsing regexp.  Anything shorter is likely to miss some
> special case.

I'm glad I don't have to debug that.

I like the idea (sorry, I deleted the original post) of checking with
fopen.  Perhaps create a DB table with a column for last good result
from fopen.  If that column reaches a threshold, chuck the URL.
-c

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A: None.  We'll document it in the manual.
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