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in thread Post within CGI

As a note, stonehenge.com is in the whitelist, so http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/LinuxMag/col39.html should also work for you to link to Watching long processes through CGI (Aug 02).

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Re^5: Post within CGI
by Anonymous Monk on Dec 15, 2011 at 09:40 UTC

    ;) What whitelist? It would be nice to see it :)

      There is a whitelist for URLs that Anonymous Monk is allowed to use as links. It's not visible outside of pmdev. I assumed you avoided the direct linking because of getting "Permission Denied" replies previously, but I don't know. You shouldn't have received a "Permission Denied" for linking to that URL directly at least.

        It's not visible outside of pmdev.

        Why not?

        You shouldn't have received a "Permission Denied" for linking to that URL directly at least

        I got tired of seeing those, though yesterday I had tried and was denied for http://blogs.msdn.com/b/twistylittlepassagesallalike/archive/2011/04/23/everyone-quotes-arguments-the-wrong-way.aspx

        so its either view the list and check against my post while composing /during preview , or trial and error for X amount of urls I use, or stop trying to link to stuff

        I've seen other sites use a re-director, I believe all 3 forms defeat the purpose of spam links but not spam posts

        .../external/http://example.com .../external?=http%3A%2F%2Fexample.com .../external/ht.W28Mw/ZjJ2

        When you visit this external page ( which robots aren't allowed to follow ), you get message of the form

        You are leaving perlmonks.com, we don't know where this link goes, if its safe for work, known for malware, visit at your own risk

        Check for safety with

        http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=http%3A%2F%2Fexampl +e.com http://www.google.com/interstitial?url=http%3A%2F%2Fexample.com

        check for ASACP....url=http%3A%2F%2Fexample.com

        so if a posting doesn't look particularly spammy, but it links to a non-whitelist-approved website, re-director-ize it?

Re^5: Post within CGI
by Anonymous Monk on Dec 21, 2011 at 07:58 UTC

      Indeed - it shouldn't block these URLs, and my local test code doesn't block them either, so more investigation is needed.

      Update: It seems that the count of links was not always correct. Corrected and verified now in 944611.