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From:
Chas. Owens
Date:
August 5, 2009 07:27
Subject:
Re: two questions
Message ID:
58ce48dc0908050726l22b8f64fy249e2d95bbc06246@mail.gmail.com
On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 10:01, John W. Krahn<jwkrahn@shaw.ca> wrote:
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>> If you want to use the string in a URL then it cannot be truly random,
>> because
>> not every character can appear in a URL.
>
> That does not make sense.
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I believe he/she meant that not every character is allowed in a regex,
so you can't just generate a random string made up of any characters.
You must use a restricted character set.

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Chas. Owens
wonkden.net
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