Re: [DOC PATCH] teach perlfaq1 about 5.10

On Dec 13, 2007, at 6:41 AM, brian d foy wrote:

> In article <[email protected]>, Paul Johnson
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Thanks for the patch. I'll fix those up today.
>
>>  Versions prior to perl5.004 had serious security problems with  
>> buffer
>>  overflows, and in some cases have CERT advisories (for instance,
>> -http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-1997-17.html ).
>> +http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-1997-17.html).
>
> By convention we're putting a space after all URLs so the succeeding
> characters aren't treated as part of the URL by other processors. :)

I thought the convention was to enclose the URL in angled brackets,  
e.g. <http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-1997-17.html>.

Josh