Re: Vender submission problem.
On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 11:41:52AM +0100, Paul Cager wrote:
> >> I do not believe the query on your URL should upset the process; [...]
> >
> > Why don't you believe it? The regexp it must match is
> > /^([\w.:\/~-]+)$/ - in other words, a string containing only one or
> > more word characters (alphanumeric plus "_"), dot, colon, slash, tilde
> > or dash. Question marks are not allowed.
> >
> > That's on cgi.debian.org/cgi-bin/submit_cdvendor.pl line 76 - I can
> > view it, but not edit it (and I'm not sure it should be changed).
>
> I stand corrected, but somewhat surprised...
>
> Although I don't like the idea of using a dynamic URL for what is
> essentially a static page, it *is* still a legal URL. Why should we ban
> it? And looking at the UK entries on http://www.debian.org/CD/vendors/#uk,
> roughly half of the URLS are illegal according to the regexp above.
Oh, I was just too strict when writing that regexp :) I updated it last
night. Richard Atterer asked me to do it a while ago, but I got sidetracked.
Please submit again.
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