dan 💾 (@billgoats@bitbang.social)

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🆕 blog! “http:, ftp:, and ... dict:?”

I went for a spelunk through an ancient codebase a few weeks ago which contained a curious regex that I just couldn't grok.

{<((https?|ftp|dict|tel):[^\'">\s]+)>}i

I'm familiar with HTTP and FTP. I worked in the mobile industry, so knew that tel:+44... could be used to launch a dialer. But DICT?!?!?! It turns out that, lurking on […]

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@Edent Oh, interesting! Sticking a dict:// url into Safari on my Mac makes it want to open the Dictionary app.

But it falls apart after that... with your example it tries to up the ‘dict.org’ directly after the :// and gets no entries found, instead of connecting to the dict.org server :/

Safari wanting to open a dict:// url in the Dictionary app

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The Mac Dictionary app not finding any entries for dict.org

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