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Re: NSURL and NSRegularExpression
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Re: NSURL and NSRegularExpression


  • Subject: Re: NSURL and NSRegularExpression
  • From: R <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2012 19:27:48 -0800 (PST)

All good, valid and useful points.

However, I would at least like to maintain the same functionality of
the Twitter App for iPhone.

The app does does a pretty good job of detecting and reviewing the URL
to determine if it can be assumed to be 20 characters.

On Mar 3, 7:16 pm, Conrad Shultz <email@hidden>
wrote:
> On 3/3/12 5:48 PM, Jens Alfke wrote:
>
> > Look up the hostname. No ping required.
>
> As I mentioned in the reply I just posted, even looking up the hostname
> is potentially problematic.  One obvious case that I overlooked in my
> response: mandatory hostname lookup will cripple your functionality if
> you don't have an active network connection.
>
> As for ping, not only does the OP not need it, they shouldn't even think
> about using it.  A *huge* number of sites block ICMP echo requests.  For
> example, cnn.com (employing the OP's example) doesn't respond to ping!
>
> This then quickly leads us down the reachability/two generals rabbit
> hole that this list seems doomed to repeat every six months or so.
>
> > Honestly, use Data Detectors.
>
> Ditto, of course.
>
> --
> Conrad Shultz
>
> Synthetiq Solutionswww.synthetiqsolutions.com
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