Sean McBride wrote (Wed, 9 Mar 2011 22:12:43 -0500): >> I routinely get hell from my colleagues using Mail.app when I try to >> send them URLs that get broken across line breaks. Mail.app does not >> respect the angle-bracket convention, so it only sees the first part of >> the URL. > > More chance of Apple fixing this. Is it just a convention or it is > actually in an RFC or something?
RFC 3986 says: "Using <> angle brackets around each URI is especially recommended as a delimiting style for a reference that contains embedded whitespace." ... and of course, the line break IS a whitespace. Moreover, it recommends to "recognize and strip both delimiters and embedded whitespace". <http://labs.apache.org/webarch/uri/rfc/rfc3986.html#delimiting> So it's just a recommendation but it has been around long enough so Apple Mail (and every other email client) should know and respect this... But of course we know that this is not the case so I still use <http:// tinyurl.com/> (or rather, the iTiny URL Dashboard Widget) whenever I have to send long URLs. Hate to do this, but it seems to be the only reasonable way... Kind regards, Tobias Jung
