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support.

it should be things inside scratch, because the "new scratcher" thing was only for making sure spam is not allowed from other websites.

Yeah that was my thought too    Just thought i'd post something to let them know 

Paddle2See wrote:

Thanks for letting us know about this!  It does look like an oversight.

Hey, it is supposed to let you link to info.scratch... oops! It's a bug really...  Thanks for letting us know about it! When we get it sorted, we'll post here to let you know...

Ok, I think we have a fix, but it has to wait until some other changes get finished before it goes live.

In case you guys are curious, the problem showed up because we forgot to add a . and a * to some regular expression code that evaluates what links can or can't be posted by New Scratchers.  I'm no good with REGEX, but paddle2see knows it well. So he found the fix.

Here's the old code:

if (!preg_match( '/\[url[\]=]http:\/\/scratch\.mit\.edu.*\[\/url\]/i', $message))

And here's the new, fixed code, which I hope we can release soon:

if (!preg_match( '/\[url[\]=]http:\/\/.*scratch\.mit\.edu.*\[\/url\]/i', $message))

We meant for the original to work for all sites with scratch.mit.edu in the url, but left out the pesky .* 

That's bugs for you - they're tricky little things. 

Want to learn more about regular expressions? Here's a good place to start:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_expression

helltank wrote:

Um, LIghtnin? Since the bug is fixed, shouldn't this be closed or something?

Nope, the fix isn't really live yet. And I thought I'd leave it open for the time being in case anyone has questions.

I used to have this problem.  Twice I tried referring people to suggest.scratch.mit.edu to my suggestion related to the topic, and had to leave off the [url] tag.

Last edited by scimonster (2011-03-24 11:01:00)

I don't get it.