Re: strange highlightings

[Daniel Pittman <daniel@danann.net>]

On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, Kai Großjohann <Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE>
wrote:

> Vladimir Volovich <vvv@vvv.vsu.ru> writes:
> 
>> well, the URL was guessed obviously wrong: the correct one is
>> 10.95.3.38 but not 95.3.38. And often the text which has nothing
>> close to URLs is highlighted and buttonized which seems like an
>> overkill (and a bit annoying :). is there a config option to restore
>> the previous behavior? 8-)
> 
> The question is, how to recognize text which is a URL and how to
> recognize text which _isn't_ a URL?
> 
> Gnus currently looks `foo.foo.foo' type strings, with three words and
> two dots.  And obviously, digits are allowed in the words
> (www2.frob.org might be a valid URL).  Well...
> 
> Have you got a suggestion on improving the rules used by Gnus?

Hrm. Real URL paths refer to a fully qualified machine name, with a
(somewhat) restricted set of designations following. Wouldn't matching
the 'com', 'net' or 'org' make sense?

Except, of course, that would result in a regexp that specified all of
the registered top level domains, which would be (ahem) not so small. I
don't know what effect that would have on the performance of the
matcher...

        Daniel

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