On Fri, 23 Aug 2019 13:23:04 -0500, Jerry Callen wrote:
>> The Percent29 at the end breaks the URL. Is your e-mail software doing that
>> automatically?
>
>I created the post directly from the listserv's web interface - no email
>software involved. I *did* have a closing paren at the end of the URL, since I
>was in the middle of a parenthesized phrase; it seems that somehow got rolled
>into the URL.
>
This is the Wild, Wild West, with few rules. RFC 1738:
https://www.freesoft.org/CIE/RFC/1738/36.htm
would suggest:
(see
<URL:https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSLTBW_2.4.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r4.bpxb200/bpxb2soc24.htm>),
instead of:
(see
https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSLTBW_2.4.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r4.bpxb200/bpxb2soc24.htm),
The web interface editor needs an "Insert URL" command. HTML doesn't help.
-- gil
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