Re: 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:

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.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: scheme://query no longer works in Search box by LanX (Saint) on Sep 09, 2021 at 10:50 UTC
I agree. Cheers Rolf _{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :) Wikisyntax for the Monastery}	[reply]
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