On Friday 17 July 2009, Steve Comstock wrote: > Eric Chevalier wrote: > > On 17 Jul 2009 06:30:15 -0700, > > > > ibm...@woodsway.com (Bob Woodside) wrote: > >>> For reference, > >>> http://dtsc.dfw.ibm.com/MVSDS/%27HTTPD2.PT217.HTML(INDEX)%27 > >> > >> This link appears borken. :-( > > borken?
borken : adj : Standard Internet slang for "broken"; formed as an intentional tupo (or tyop). cf. the following entries in the Jargon File.: http://catb.org/jargon/html/B/borken.html http://catb.org/jargon/html/T/tyop.html > If I click on the link in Thunderbird, it switches to my > Firefox browser with this in the URI bar: > > http://dtsc.dfw.ibm.com/MVSDS/%20HTTPD2.PT217.HTML%20INDEX%20%20#7792 >310775959509782 > > which results in 404 Page not found!! Yup, 404 is the result I got, only mine was just truncated exactly like Eric's quoted below till I did the cut 'n paste thing. T-bird's transmogrification is a bit creative! (The pair of "%27" characters are apostrophes or single quotes, by the way.) > > That may be an issue with your news reader or e-mail client. I > > follow this mailing list via the newsgroup, using Forte Agent. > > Agent considers the end of the link to be the text ".HTML". > > However, in fact, the complete URL *includes* the trailing > > characters "(INDEX)%27". > > > > You may need to copy the complete link from the message and paste > > into your browser, rather than just trying to click on the link. I think that the number of different behaviors respondents have reported among various mail clients/newsreaders reinforces my opinion that this sort of url is truly lame. And it also strengthens my long-standing suspicion that most web developers must not really be web *users*. Cheers, Bob -- Bob Woodside Woodsway Consulting, Inc. http://www.woodsway.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html