altid: warn about non-word prefixes

[public-inbox.git] / lib / PublicInbox / AltId.pm

diff --git a/lib/PublicInbox/AltId.pm b/lib/PublicInbox/AltId.pm
index 8ce70e46042f0b7e1c38e2fe191ae2a58eb548a7..3be6c73cc0e93c52220e554543bc640e7123f1a8 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/PublicInbox/AltId.pm
+++ b/lib/PublicInbox/AltId.pm
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ sub new {
        my ($class, $ibx, $spec, $writable) = @_;
        my ($type, $prefix, $query) = split(/:/, $spec, 3);
        $type eq 'serial' or die "non-serial not supported, yet\n";
-
+       $prefix =~ /\A\w+\z/ or warn "non-word prefix not searchable\n";
        my %params = map {
                my ($k, $v) = split(/=/, uri_unescape($_), 2);
                $v = '' unless defined $v;