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Re: scheme://query no longer works in Search box

by LanX (Saint)
on Sep 08, 2021 at 22:04 UTC ( [id://11136590]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to scheme://query no longer works in Search box

Some background can be found for pmdevs on Automatic redirection with https://perlmonks.org/?node=http://spammer.com

The relevant part is:

    I was curious how many spammers actually succeeded to post porn links in the monastery, so I ran a site search on google

    porn site:perlmonks.org

    to my big surprise I got plenty of hits from spammers using an automatic redirection from PM to their sites

    What's happening is that links of the form

    https://perlmonks.org/?node=http://spammer.com

    are automatically redirected.

and that's what the searchbox basically does, it puts any searchterm after the ?node= and then our scheme://queries (including http:// ) were translated.

That's why the gods decided to disable this feature, any link-format will now only be searched verbatim.

Cheers Rolf
(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
Wikisyntax for the Monastery

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Re^2: scheme://query no longer works in Search box
by erzuuli (Cannon) on Sep 09, 2021 at 01:12 UTC

    Thank you. By the way, I am of the opinion that it would have been better to leave the feature enabled generally, and just disallow ^http redirects.

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