Interesting suggestion. Poking around inside the innards of the module, I find

my($url_rx) = '(\\S+)';             # %U (url, URL)
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Which isn't going to solve the problem; not that I would expect it to, actually. "the problem with making anything so foolproof is that fools are so (consarned) ingenious!"

That's it, then, those lines are going on the junkheap =)

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