Subj : Re: Get URLs
To   : Berurier <manulenantais@yahoo.fr>
From : Brendan Eich <brendan@meer.net>
Date : Wed Sep 24 2003 10:26 am

Berurier wrote:

>Hello,
>
>I make a crawler which must *parse* javascript for getting back URLs in it.
>For example, 
><script>window.open("http://www.hello.org");</script> or
><script>alert("go to : http://www.hello.org");</script>
>
>Is it possible with Mozilla JS Engine to get thoses URL ?
>  
>

The second is a substring of a JS string literal, so I'm not sure how 
using the engine is better than simply "grepping" through the script tag 
contents for substrings that resemble URLs.  Mozilla mail does this with 
text/plain messages to auto-linkify.

/be

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