# Pod::Text -- Convert POD data to formatted ASCII text.
-# $Id: Text.pm,v 2.7 2000/11/19 04:47:50 eagle Exp $
+# $Id: Text.pm,v 2.8 2001/02/10 06:50:23 eagle Exp $
#
-# Copyright 1999, 2000 by Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
+# Copyright 1999, 2000, 2001 by Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
#
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
# under the same terms as Perl itself.
# 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.
-$VERSION = 2.07;
+$VERSION = 2.08;
############################################################################
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)>. The latter is an