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Terence Eden

🆕 blog! “http:, ftp:, and ... dict:?”

I went for a spelunk through an ancient codebase a few weeks ago which contained a curious regex that I just couldn't grok.

{<((https?|ftp|dict|tel):[^\'">\s]+)>}i

I'm familiar with HTTP and FTP. I worked in the mobile industry, so knew that tel:+44... could be used to launch a dialer. But DICT?!?!?! It turns out that, lurking on […]

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Alaric Snell-Pym

@Edent ahhh, I'm nostalgic for the days when people made protocols target then just REST APIs...

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