Most URLs arriving in html messages are eminently discardable, but today I received one worth trying. Mutt's autoview invokes w3m, which extracts most of the html text, but renders the URL as nothing more than '*'.
There are three matching lines in /etc/mailcap: text/html; /usr/bin/sensible-browser '%s'; description=HTML Text; nametemplate=%s.html text/html; /usr/bin/w3m -T text/html '%s'; needsterminal; description=HTML Text; nametemplate=%s.html text/html; /usr/bin/w3m -dump -T text/html '%s'; copiousoutput; description=HTML Text; nametemplate=%s.html OK, since I'm in mutt, one keystroke opens the message in vim, and the offending URL is revealed. It was spread over 5 lines, with a trailing '=' on the first 4 serving as continuation escape. I deleted them, and joined the lines. Also converting 15 occurrences of "=3D" to '=' allowed the URL to be used in firefox. It won't take me many minutes to point /etc/mailcap at a simple shell script which invokes a few lines of awk to perform the repair, before piping to w3m to finish off, but I'm very curious to know what other mutters do with something like that. The sender seems to consider the message standards compliant, because this: <html xmlns=3D"http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";> <meta http-equiv=3D"Content-Type" content=3D"text/html; charset=3DUTF-8" = /> appears early in the message. I had thought that "=3D" was a m$-ism? Erik -- Microsoft is to software what McDonalds is to gourmet cooking. -- Bram Moolenaar
