From beece40a1c30d9a232040f19536f60ec7eb31988 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: markjaquith <markjaquith@1a063a9b-81f0-0310-95a4-ce76da25c4cd>
Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2006 04:45:22 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] comment link counting improvements from Nazgul.  fixes: #938

git-svn-id: http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/branches/2.0@4300 1a063a9b-81f0-0310-95a4-ce76da25c4cd
---
 wp-includes/comment-functions.php | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/wp-includes/comment-functions.php b/wp-includes/comment-functions.php
index 630866956f..f22d03e7f4 100644
--- a/wp-includes/comment-functions.php
+++ b/wp-includes/comment-functions.php
@@ -833,7 +833,7 @@ function check_comment($author, $email, $url, $comment, $user_ip, $user_agent, $
 
 	if (1 == get_settings('comment_moderation')) return false; // If moderation is set to manual
 
-	if ( (count(explode('http:', $comment)) - 1) >= get_settings('comment_max_links') )
+	if ( preg_match_all("|(href\t*?=\t*?['\"]?)?(https?:)?//|i", $comment, $out) >= get_option('comment_max_links') )
 		return false; // Check # of external links
 
 	$mod_keys = trim( get_settings('moderation_keys') );