[dev] Bug 616: URL-to-link in message.php3

[Jon Parise]

On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 12:32:05PM -0500, Chuck Hagenbuch wrote:

> > Isn't the plus sign the character used in place of a space for URL
> > encoding?  That would make its use illegal in a URL, unless it was
> > properly encoded.  I suppose '++' could mean "space space", though.
> 
> Err, but we have to allow it in the regex, because a '+' _is_ a properly 
> encoded space... right?
 
Right, that's true.  For some reason, I misinterpreted what that part
of the regular expression was actually doing.

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