MediaWiki talk:Spam-whitelist
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I think we might have done this list wrong.
--DanielDraco (talk) 11:02, 24 June 2017 (MDT)
- Yep, definitely. I'll go through and clean up. Easy fix. --DanielDraco (talk) 11:02, 24 June 2017 (MDT)
- Wait, hold on, this doesn't seem to be working right. It says it only matches the host portion, but this link doesn't work: [http://www.facebook.com/whatever Bad link], but this one does: Good link, presumably on the basis of the rule
www.facebook.com/dndwiki. Anyone know how this page actually works? --DanielDraco (talk) 11:06, 24 June 2017 (MDT)
- Wait, hold on, this doesn't seem to be working right. It says it only matches the host portion, but this link doesn't work: [http://www.facebook.com/whatever Bad link], but this one does: Good link, presumably on the basis of the rule
- Okay, I did some tinkering and it turns out that this page does not work at all like advertise. Each like is a regex, but it does not only match the domain. The documentation says that the matching begins after the
http://portion, but that the^token doesn't match the beginning of the tested text. This makes it essentially impossible, as far as I can tell, to make this actually work as intended. Maybe we can match the beginning of a hostname with something like(?<=^https?://), but that's more experimentation than I want to do right now. For right now, I'm just going to escape all the periods. It does its primary job of preventing spam either way. --DanielDraco (talk) 09:37, 4 September 2017 (MDT)
- Okay, I did some tinkering and it turns out that this page does not work at all like advertise. Each like is a regex, but it does not only match the domain. The documentation says that the matching begins after the
