# Pod::Man -- Convert POD data to formatted *roff input.
-# $Id: Man.pm,v 1.14 2001/01/16 13:39:45 eagle Exp $
+# $Id: Man.pm,v 1.15 2001/02/10 06:50:22 eagle Exp $
#
# Copyright 1999, 2000, 2001 by Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
#
# Perl core and too many things could munge CVS magic revision strings.
# This number should ideally be the same as the CVS revision in podlators,
# however.
-$VERSION = 1.14;
+$VERSION = 1.15;
############################################################################
s/^\s+//;
s/\s+$//;
+ # If the argument looks like a URL, return it verbatim. This only
+ # handles URLs that use the server syntax.
+ if (m%^[a-z]+://\S+$%) { return $_ }
+
# Default to using the whole content of the link entry as a section
# name. Note that L<manpage/> forces a manpage interpretation, as does
# something looking like L<manpage(section)>. Do the same thing to