🆕 blog! “http:, ftp:, and ... dict:?”
I went for a spelunk through an ancient codebase a few weeks ago which contained a curious regex that I just couldn't grok.
{<((https?|ftp|dict|tel):[^\'">\s]+)>}i
I'm familiar with HTTP and FTP. I worked in the mobile industry, so knew that tel:+44... could be used to launch a dialer. But DICT?!?!?! It turns out that, lurking on […]
👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/09/http-ftp-and-dict/
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@Edent Spooky! Someone asked me about the licensing of a dictionary from/for a dict server very recently, and I hadn't heard about it before either.
And now you write about it.
What a small world...