on 8/22/04 11:06 AM, Paul Berkowitz at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Actually, it's a weird type of URL that includes another http:// URL within > it. I'm not sure that's even a legal URL. Entourage is not arbitrarily > breaking at a line end or something like that. It's linking the interior URL > beginning with the second http.
Its not all that weird, I see them in many urls other than aol ones. Redirect.yahoo.com is one such one, google does it at well on some of their advertising services. I have seen cases of http://www.example.com/index.php?page=http://etcetcetc > If this is indeed a legal URL (the fact both exterior and interior URLs seem > to have something to do with aol raise my suspicions mightily), then I guess > it would be a bug in Entourage not to parse them correctly. Presumably the > "=" immediately before the second http should indicate that it's internal > and not the start of the link. As per RFC and memory, you are correct that ://= are in fact not allowed charcters in a url, however, url is a term used loosely in that spec, url has a few "parts" to it. If it is part of the protocol, only a-z, 0-9, and $-_.+!*'(), are allowed. It should also be noted that only the - and . Are allowed in the domain name part of the url. After all that, ZI think RFC refers to it as the "searchpart", or arguments after a ? Or $, at that point, anything goes so long as it is URL encoded, there are some exceptions of course, but "http:// is not one of them. I will say, yes, aol should url encode the / to in part deal with this issue, for example: http://www.example.com/?redirect=http:%2F%2Fwww.example2.com%2F This seemingly would solve the issue and not break anything on aol's side either. However, since every browser I tested can handle that url as a non encoded one, I vote E-rage could better handle these cases. > Does this happen with both plain text and HTML messages? And does anyone > know whether one http link containing a second one is following internet > protocols? I don't know how it works in HTML email, I have not tried that out. -- ------------------------------------------------------------- Scott Haneda Tel: 415.898.2602 <http://www.newgeo.com> Fax: 313.557.5052 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Novato, CA U.S.A. -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
