Bad quoting

2006-06-08 Thread Philip Prindeville
I noticed the following message (well, I'll just put a fragment):

!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN
HTMLHEAD
META http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3Dtext/html; =
charset=3Dwindows-1252
META content=3DMSHTML 6.00.2900.2670 name=3DGENERATOR
STYLE/STYLE
/HEAD
BODY bgColor=3D#ff
DIVFONT face=3DArial size=3D2IMG alt=3D hspace=3D0=20
src=3Dcid:000e01c68b04$73437a90$41e45853@qop align=3Dbaseline=20
border=3D0IMG alt=3D hspace=3D0=20
src=3Dcid:000f01c68b04$73437aaa$41e45853@qop align=3Dbaseline=20
border=3D0IMG alt=3D hspace=3D0=20
src=3Dcid:001001c68b04$73437ac4$41e45853@qop align=3Dbaseline=20
border=3D0IMG alt=3D hspace=3D0=20
src=3Dcid:001101c68b04$73437ade$41e45853@qop align=3Dbaseline=20
border=3D0IMG alt=3D hspace=3D0=20
src=3Dcid:001201c68b04$73437af8$41e45853@qop align=3Dbaseline=20
border=3D0/FONT/DIV



Note that the '=' got escaped as '=3D'  they probably entered
the text and their HTML editor escaped it, not figuring it was
raw HTML being entered directly...

-Philip




Re: Bad quoting

2006-06-08 Thread Stuart Johnston

Philip Prindeville wrote:

I noticed the following message (well, I'll just put a fragment):

!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN
HTMLHEAD
META http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3Dtext/html; =
charset=3Dwindows-1252
META content=3DMSHTML 6.00.2900.2670 name=3DGENERATOR
STYLE/STYLE
/HEAD
BODY bgColor=3D#ff
DIVFONT face=3DArial size=3D2IMG alt=3D hspace=3D0=20
src=3Dcid:000e01c68b04$73437a90$41e45853@qop align=3Dbaseline=20
border=3D0IMG alt=3D hspace=3D0=20
src=3Dcid:000f01c68b04$73437aaa$41e45853@qop align=3Dbaseline=20
border=3D0IMG alt=3D hspace=3D0=20
src=3Dcid:001001c68b04$73437ac4$41e45853@qop align=3Dbaseline=20
border=3D0IMG alt=3D hspace=3D0=20
src=3Dcid:001101c68b04$73437ade$41e45853@qop align=3Dbaseline=20
border=3D0IMG alt=3D hspace=3D0=20
src=3Dcid:001201c68b04$73437af8$41e45853@qop align=3Dbaseline=20
border=3D0/FONT/DIV



Note that the '=' got escaped as '=3D'  they probably entered
the text and their HTML editor escaped it, not figuring it was
raw HTML being entered directly...


=3D comes from quoted-printable encoding.  HTML messages are often QP 
encoded.