On 21 Dec 2007 11:03:47 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Edward Jaffe) wrote: >With an email client that understands hwo to properly handle URLs, no >extra effort is required. You simply post in the URL -- whether long or >short -- and it is not wrapped. For example, this should (hopefully) not >wrap: > >http://searchdatacenter.techtarget.com/tip/0,289483,sid80_gci1280330,00.html?track=NL-576&ad=611332&asrc=EM_NLT_2483474&uid=279318
I use Forte Agent version 4.2, and it had no problems with your URL. However, Agent does _not_ seem to handle the wrapped URL in Ed G's message: ><http://searchdatacenter.techtarget.com/general/ >0,295582,sid80_gci1286765,00.html? >track=NL-576&ad=617990&asrc=EM_NLN_2777580&uid=6570353> that triggered my response. After a little digging, I noticed that Ed G's message contained the header: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed The first two text lines containing the URL contain trailing blanks, the third line does not. So Ed G's message does appear to be properly formatted for RFC 3676, Content-Type "text/plain", "delsp=yes" and "format=flowed". Any newsreader/e-mail client that correctly supports RFC 3676 should remove the trailing blanks and concatenate all three lines into one. Clicking on that wrapped URL in Agent, Thunderbird tried to go to the URL: http://searchdatacenter.techtarget.com/general/0,295582,sid80,00.html So, it looks like Agent did process the wrapped lines more or less correctly, but then decided to stop parsing the URL after the ".html" text. I guess that might be considered a bug in Agent, but I'm not sure there's an RFC defining how e-mail clients should interpret a character string that might be a URL. Obviously, "http://"; is a pretty good clue to the start of the URL. I guess Agent took a bit of a shortcut when trying to determine the end of the link. After reading all of the responses to my initial note, I've come to feel that putting both the full URL and a tinyurl link in a message is a reasonable compromise. Yes, I understand that tinyurl links do have some security exposures, but in a small community like IBM-Main, I'm willing to be pretty trusting. After all, whatever one might think of Ed G's technical contributions to this group, or his opinions of IBM, I don't believe he is at all malicious! Eric -- Eric Chevalier E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: www.tulsagrammer.com Is that call really worth your child's life? HANG UP AND DRIVE! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
