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Any IsValidLink() ?

I don't know if you have seen this recently, but in addition to the usual color flooders using "|c" , now gold spammers are using "|h" in game links

Is it any API ingame for a simple check like IsValidLink("|HFF0000:ev|hk|h") returning False ?

Yet the only workaround to test this is to create a hidden Tooltip, use tooltip:SetLink and catch the error message "malformed link" when registering an event to EVENT_LUA_ERROR

There is really no better way for forcing the client to return if the link is valid ????

What does the "|h" do in text? Not seen that one (that I recall).

|H marks the start of a hyperlink and |h the end
|c marks the start of a simple text color and |r the end

I ended up using a less costly method if anyone is interested, basically if |H is used, it returns true at the first invalid link detected

Code:

local links_type = { -- Color spammers now uses |H color links, need to check link validity

    [0] = "|H[A-F0-9][A-F0-9][A-F0-9][A-F0-9][A-F0-9][A-F0-9]:item:%d+:%d+:%d+:%d+:%d+:%d+:%d+:%d+:%d+:%d+:%d+:%d+:%d+:%d+:%d+:%d+:%d+:%d+:%d+:%d+|h%[[^%]]+%]|h", -- ITEM_LINK_TYPE        |H2DC50E:item:30164:1:7:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0|h[Ancolie]|h

    [1] = "|H[A-F0-9][A-F0-9][A-F0-9][A-F0-9][A-F0-9][A-F0-9]:achievement:%d+:%d+:%d+|h%[[^%]]+%]|h",                                                              -- ACHIEVEMENT_LINK_TYPE |HDCD822:achievement:554:65535:1397743073|h[Chasseur d'éclats célestes de Fendretour]|h

    [2] = "|H[A-F0-9][A-F0-9][A-F0-9][A-F0-9][A-F0-9][A-F0-9]:book:%d+|h%[[^%]]+%]|h"                                                                              -- BOOK_LINK_TYPE        |HE27A3F:book:156|h[Jorunn le Roi-scalde]|h

}



local function has_invalid_link(text)

    if text:match("|[hH]") then

        for a in text:gmatch("|H.-:.-|h.-|h") do

            local isLinkValid = false

            for i = 0, #links_type do

                if a:match(links_type[i]) then

                    isLinkValid = true

                    break

                end

            end

            if not isLinkValid then

                return true

            end

        end

    end

    return false

end

Is the |h how sometime a right click ignore is doing nothing?
I was starting to wonder if the gold spammers had found a way to obfuscate their @names.
--halja

Quote:

Originally Posted by Halja (Post 5504)

Is the |h how sometime a right click ignore is doing nothing?
I was starting to wonder if the gold spammers had found a way to obfuscate their @names.
--halja

Yeah I think they removed some of these hacks I haven't caught one recently but I believe they used some magic char to bug the system, haven't really caught one recently because I do a bayesian antispam not using the ignore list, it hooks message on top of everything to makes simple filterings ala world of warcraft

The |h spam is not really related to this, it is just they are spamming lines like this one

Code:

"W |HFF0000:hg|hW|h    W  . |HFF0000:cy|hM|h    |HFF0000:ur|hM|h O  U U    |HFF0000:ze|h.|h  C  |HFF0000:aq|hO|h M          100  |HFF0000:ev|hk|h    |HFFFF00:hh|h=|h 11.14  EUR"

And |HFF0000:hg| is use to color spam and so on it is not safe to do a simple regular expression removal of |H everywhere because you will modify the legit links, that's why the need to check for a link Invalidity before going into the replacements, that's probably the less costly and easiest method to get ride of color trolls and spammers using |c and |h actually

Is funny when their spam makes their urls nearly unreadable.
I'm waiting for them to use textures myself.
Course, its not only spammers using h and c links in chat anymore.

Hope you get the spam filter updated with all the variants, nice to use it sometimes. Alternatively I just ended up removing zone chat.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Halja (Post 5504)

Is the |h how sometime a right click ignore is doing nothing?
I was starting to wonder if the gold spammers had found a way to obfuscate their @names.
--halja

They just add a lot of spaces so the name scrolls out of the window and then put in a fake character link.
As string so to say "____________________________________________[Blurbdid]: Buy my gold!"

You need to scroll upwards to see the real link.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Iyanga (Post 5564)

Yeah, it's something like that, but they are embedding links of real players who end up getting banned :(

It's closer to:

"I agree (or gibberish) ______________________________________________________ [player link of someone] Zone: guy bold at guy-bold.com!"

and it comes out

[spammer] Zone: I agree
[real player] Zone: guy bold at guy-bold.com!

If you click on [real player], you can report or ignore them since it's a real link.

People used to do that in WoW to imitate GMs. iirc, WoW changed it so that you couldn't have so many spaces in a row.

Also, if you change the width of the chat frame, it makes these really obvious. ;)