Sam Varshavchik writes:
> Robert August Vincent II writes:
>
>> On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 05:18:07PM +0000, William V Wishon wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I've been using sqwebmail for some time now and have been liking it a
>>> lot. Also for some time now I have had a problem with the way external
>>> links are handled in Opera. Here's the problem: When I click an
>>> external link in an email, I end up with a new window with something
>>> like this as the address:
>>> https://mail.wishon.org/%22http://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/05/business/05
>>> GAS. html%22
>>> This gives me a 404, if I strip away the extraneous stuff the link
>>> itself is fine.
>>>
>>> I'm using Opera 5.11 on windows, sqwebmail version 2.0.0, running on
>>> FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE
>>>
>>> This works fine in IE so it looks like an Opera bug, but if I new a
>>> little more about how the redirection is happening I might be able to
>>> tweak a setting somewhere in opera or in sqwebmail to fix it, or perhaps
>>> just be able to file a more descriptive bug with Opera.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Bill
>>
>> Konqueror has the same "bug".
>>
>> I've been meaning to grub around the source code to figure out why.
>>
>> Any thoughts, Sam?
>
> Nope. Recognizes URLs in text/plain content are linked as
> http://pathtosqwebmail?redirect=http%2A%2F%2Fescaped-url, where
> "escaped-url" is the original URL, %-escaped.
>
> Mozilla, Netscape, and lynx all handle them just fine.
>
>
>
> --
> Sam
>
The hyperlink that is in the email looks like what you said, like this
http://mail.wishon.org/?redirect=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2001%2F06%2F
05%2Fpolitics%2F05BUSH.html
If I put that into a new window it successfully loads the sqwebmail page, I
can see the background for a second before it redirects to what should be
the real url. It is that second url that is the one in error. Using
ethereal I was able to determine that the thing trying to cause the refresh
is a Refresh Header like this:
Refresh: 0; URL="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/05/politics/05BUSH.html";
I couldn't find the Refresh header mentioned in the http spec, is it part of
the http standard? Opera is interpreting the url as a url relative to the
current host and sending a get request to mail.wishon.org like this:
GET /%22http://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/05/politics/05BUSH.html%22 HTTP/1.1
User-Agent: Opera/5.0 (Linux 2.4.1 i686; U) [en]
Host: mail.wishon.org
Which is what causes the 404 on my server. Is this a missinterpretation of
the Refresh header?
-Bill
