"Bernd Khalil" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Hello!
>
> Why does Mozilla put the URL of the links you send into < > (e.g.
> <http://localhost> ) ? Is this required?
> I ask this because I've noticed more than once that those URLs were
> misinterpreted because of the < >.
>
> Are the < > required in any way or would it be possible to disable them
> being added by Mozilla?
According to RFC 1738:
> ...there are many occasions when URLs are included in other
> kinds of text; examples include electronic mail, USENET news
> messages, or printed on paper. In such cases, it is convenient to
> have a separate syntactic wrapper that delimits the URL and separates
> it from the rest of the text, and in particular from punctuation
> marks that might be mistaken for part of the URL. For this purpose,
> is recommended that angle brackets ("<" and ">"), along with the
> prefix "URL:", be used to delimit the boundaries of the URL. This
> wrapper does not form part of the URL and should not be used in
> contexts in which delimiters are already specified.
So, technically it should be delimiting the URL with "<URL:" and ">"
