Posted by Jen Knee on 12/05/07 05:23

On Tue, 04 Dec 2007 20:59:26 -0800, Tyrone Slothrop <ts@paranoids.com>
wrote:

>On Tue, 04 Dec 2007 23:35:40 -0500, Jen <jenny@8675309.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>Why oh why does my domain name become part of the link when I use the
>>following code.
>><a href="<? echo $web; ?>">Website</a>
>> the variable $web is from a user input form.
>>Here's what the link looks like
>>--http://mysite.com/www.variablesite.com
>
>If the http:// is not part of $web, the browser will assume it is a
>link on your site. You should parse the user input to validate its
>structure.
Ha! I'm a noob.. but I should have figured this one out.
Now I'm going to figure out how to parse user inputs..
don't tell me, don't tell me..I love this stuff!
thanks for the quick reponse Tyrone ;)

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