On Tue, 25 May 1999, Earl Hood wrote:
> > when mhonarc turns my mail messages into hypertext pages,
> > it turns embedded URLs into live links--but it stops the
> > live linking when it hits a ? in the URL. This is
> > undesirable because the traffic in my mail list includes
> > many URLs which include the "?". Is there anything I can
> > do so that mhonarc only stops the live linking when it hits
> > a space?
>
> Can you provide an example and tell us what version of MHonArc you
> are using? From my quick checks, the "?" is only excluded if it is
> the last character in the URL string (the assumption is that it
> is a punctuation character and not a URL character).
I'm using 2.3.3 and question mark "?" is processed OK but the ampersand
"&" is being treated as a terminator. I don't know if ampersand is a
legal URL character but it would certainly be useful if it was
acceptable in MHonArc.
Thus this is treated correctly:
http://www.wired.com/news/print_version/technology/story/19136.html?wnpg=all
but this is not:
http://www.rinkworks.com/dialect/dialectp.cgi?dialect=jive&url=http%3A%2F%2Ftbtf.com%2Ffaq.html
Pete
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