Heartily Disagree, Standards are (usually) parse-friendly. I really don't feel like inventing some new indicator for your scripts of dubious worth. Obfuscate the URLs with ROT13 so it's harder for humans and easier for machines? What's hard about matching against a URI then checking the link yourself (wget/curl/* + TOR). NOW, if you WOULDN'T want your post automagically parsed then use whatever non-standard notation you feel like. I may be missing something but this seems like a highly irrational request. What are the advantages of knowing if the machine-parsed link was posted as a broken or live link? If you could parse the context of the post itself you could determine the state of the link if it were provided at all, knowing that your script doesn't address the context of the post when are you in a situation where the link(s) and the poster-provided stat(us/ii :]) thereof useful independent of the context of the post?
-Travis On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 7:58 PM, Paul Herring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For some reason, GMail decided to actually turn the www.example.com > part of that string into a link (first one I've noticed it do,) which > suggests that Google at least will recognise some of these URLs and > possibly cache/scan them (prevention of which is what I thought at > least one premise behind breaking them was for.) > > If it's munging that's easily reversible (especially for automated > scripts) that's required, perhaps ROT13? Anyone using Firefox may find > the LeetKey addon useful. > > uggc://jjj.rknzcyr.pbz > > On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 8:12 PM, Tyler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I concur. I'm trying to set up an automated URL retrieval script and >> there are just too many formats. May I suggest that is be as simple >> as just replacing http/https with hxxp/hxxps? >> >> ie. hxxp://www.example.com >> >> Tyler >> >>> Hi, >>> I was wondering if it would be more helpful if we could propose a >>> "standard" for posting broken URLs with some form of start/end indicator to >>> allow easier automated processing from the listings? >>> >>> ChrisB. > > > > -- > PJH > > http://shabbleland.myminicity.com/sec > _______________________________________________ > botnets@, the public's dumping ground for maliciousness > All list and server information are public and available to law enforcement > upon request. > http://www.whitestar.linuxbox.org/mailman/listinfo/botnets > _______________________________________________ botnets@, the public's dumping ground for maliciousness All list and server information are public and available to law enforcement upon request. http://www.whitestar.linuxbox.org/mailman/listinfo/botnets
