** Changed in: gtkhtml3.14
Status: New => Won't Fix
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/422719
Title:
evolution strips html anchors from links in outgoing mails
Status in gtkhtml3.14:
Won't Fix
Status in gtkhtml3.14 package in Ubuntu:
Triaged
Bug description:
Binary package hint: evolution
Ubuntu 9.04 x86_64
Evolution 2.26.1-0ubuntu2
The bug title says it all.
If I type (or paste) a link like this -
http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/lang/Runtime.html#exit(int)
- into a mail and I hit space after the link, Evolution will convert
the text to a hyperlink and when I send the mail the recipient will
receive it correctly. When the recipient clicks the link, their
browser will open the Runtime.html page and will jump to the exit(int)
section in the page correctly. The "#exit(int)" part of the URL is an
html anchor which tells the browser where to jump to in the target
page.
However let's say I want the display text of the link in my mail to be
different from the associated url. Say I write to a colleague "see
this method for details" and I want <this method> to be underlined as
a hyperlink to the full url above. I type my message as normal, then I
highlight <this method> with the mouse and I click "Insert" menu ->
"Link..." and it prompts me for the url. I paste the full url
including the anchor and click close. Everything looks fine so I send
the mail.
Then my colleague asks me which section in the page I was talking
about. Evolution has stripped the "#exit(int)" anchor part from the
url. When I view the source of the mail I sent in my Sent folder, I
see that Evolution seems to have stripped the anchor from the link
before even sending it.
Evolution silently strips html anchors from links in outgoing mails,
when the display text of the link differs from the url.
As you might have guessed I'm a Java developer and my colleagues are
Java deveopers and this issue comes up all the time. It's really
annoying. I think it should be marked urgent. HTML anchors are of
course part of the HTML spec since the beginning, so Evolution should
support them.
To be honest, there must be some code in Evolution which is
responsible for "transforming" links like this. This code should throw
an exception on encountering content it can't handle, rather than
skipping the content. I would rather see an error message or even have
Evolution crash, than have Evolution silently corrupt my outgoing
mails.
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