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On Dec 13, 2007, at 6:41 AM, brian d foy wrote: > In article <20071212231027.GN28348@pjcj.net>, Paul Johnson > <paul@pjcj.net> wrote: > > Thanks for the patch. I'll fix those up today. > >> Versions prior to perl5.004 had serious security problems with >> buffer >> overflows, and in some cases have CERT advisories (for instance, >> -http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-1997-17.html ). >> +http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-1997-17.html). > > By convention we're putting a space after all URLs so the succeeding > characters aren't treated as part of the URL by other processors. :) I thought the convention was to enclose the URL in angled brackets, e.g. <http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-1997-17.html>. JoshThread Previous | Thread Next