[thelist] quoting long URLs Re: news.com article on browsers and mainstream sites etc..

Tim Luoma luomat at peak.org
Tue Jul 16 17:43:01 CDT 2002


James Aylard wrote:

>
>     I have found that Outlook and Outlook Express can successfully wrap long
> URLs if what puts them over the edge is a querystring, as in Tim's example.
> However, if the length is due to a long directory structure, they won't wrap
> successfully, even with the less-than/greater-than characters appended to
> them. Here's a test that should fail in Outlook and in Outlook Express, and
> perhaps other readers, as well:
>
> http://www.fakecompany.com/fakestuff/morefakestuff/stillmorefakestuff/moremo
> remorefakestuff/default.html
> <http://www.fakecompany.com/fakestuff/morefakestuff/stillmorefakestuff/morem
> oremorefakestuff/default.html>

Yup, those both broke in Mozilla

I suspect this will break too

<URL:http://www.fakecompany.com/fakestuff/morefakestuff/stillmorefakestuff/moremoremorefakestuff/default.html>

TjL

ps - I wonder if this has anything to do with the mailing list software
used or outgoing mail preferences






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