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+1 or, because of lack of proper escaping, only if it is not followed by something similar to the host name, with dots replaced by stuff admissible.

Thilo
– Thilo

2012-08-31 07:36:48 +00:00
Commented Aug 31, 2012 at 7:36
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Indeed. It probably won't make that much of a difference in most cases, though. Although, in the light of the recent Stripe CTF, such a lapse could be both hard to spot and may allow things that were not intended ;-)

Joey
– Joey

2012-08-31 07:38:00 +00:00
Commented Aug 31, 2012 at 7:38
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Yes, won't matter. It's just that years of fixing injection vulnerabilities make these things stand out for me now ...

Thilo
– Thilo

2012-08-31 07:39:35 +00:00
Commented Aug 31, 2012 at 7:39
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This answer has been added to the Stack Overflow Regular Expression FAQ, under "Lookarounds".

aliteralmind
– aliteralmind

2014-04-10 00:29:18 +00:00
Commented Apr 10, 2014 at 0:29

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