All four of those links work, and none break into two lines. <quote who="G. Armour Van Horn"> > What happens when you send a really long link through the system? In > this case, I suspect that the line is broken before Mailman ever sees it > - it would be broken if you sent it to a standard mail client just the > same. But what you are sending is a text URL, not a link. The link the > reipient sees (that isn't working) is created by the recipient mail > client based on starting with http: and ending with whitespace. > > Here is your original URL, I've put it back on one line: > http://labtest.ca.boeing.com/~psim/NewRtPlatform/test_plate_form_notes.07_18_02.html > > Now, here it is again as a link: > http://labtest.ca.boeing.com/~psim/NewRtPlatform/test_plate_form_notes.07_18_02.html > > Unfortunately, that's behind a firewall and nobody outside The Kite > Factory will know if it worked again. Here is one that should be long > enough to break anything, based on all the URL encoding I used. First as > text: > >http://www.domainvanhorn.com/dropbox/copy%2520of%2520van%2527s%2520self%2520portrait%2520in%2520the%2520bathroom.jpg > > And now as a link: > >http://www.domainvanhorn.com/dropbox/copy%2520of%2520van%2527s%2520self%2520portrait%2520in%2520the%2520bathroom.jpg > > I won't know until this goes through the system, but I suspect that all > four will be broken onto two lines, but that the linked versions will > still work. Maybe we'll all learn somethign at that point. > > It's a universal problem. As the number of documents on a server grows, > I think we're going to have to abandon the idea of having humans read > URLs for taxonomy - it leads to URLs that break in too many places. > > Van > > Richard Barrett wrote: > >> At 09:22 19/08/2002 -0700, Wang, Mary Y wrote: >> >Hi, >> >I am using Mailman 2.0.6-1 and Sendmail-8.11.6-3. My users are >> complaining about the line wrap problem when send mailing mail to the >> mail list with a long URL. It seems line wraps text lines that are >> longer than 80 characters with no white-space. If you include a long >> URL in a email message it usually gets split onto separate lines and >> the typical email reader within BCA (exchange) marks the first part >> of the link as clickable when usually it isn't. People have to paste >> the whole link back together manually in a web browser input dialog >> to get it to work. >> > >> >First, I thought it maybe a Sendmail problem. So I tried send a mail >> via Sendmail with a long URL and it appears to be fine. The long URL >> did split into two lines, and the second line is still highlighted as >> a href link, so there was no problem. By clicking the link, the >> browser would bring up the correct information. >> > >> >However, sending an email to the mail list is a different problem. >> > >> >For example, >> >http://labtest.ca.boeing.com/~psim/NewRtPlatform/test_plate_form_notes.07_18 >> _02.html will show up with 2 lines and the second line would be ml >> and wouldn't be highlighted as part of the URL that is clickable. >> > >> >Any clue? >> > >> >Thanks for any help. We had this problem for about a year. I >> finally got a chance to look into it now. >> > >> >Mary >> >(562) 797-1545 >> >> I suspect at the back of this is what RFC2822 says and how some Mail >> Agent code/configuration is interpreting the RFC: >> >> <quote> >> 2.1.1. Line Length Limits >> >> There are two limits that this standard places on the number of >> characters in a line. Each line of characters MUST be no more than >> 998 characters, and SHOULD be no more than 78 characters, >> excluding the CRLF. >> >> ... >> >> The more conservative 78 character recommendation is to >> accommodate the many implementations of user interfaces that >> display these messages which may truncate, or disastrously wrap, >> the display of more than 78 characters per line, in spite of the >> fact that such implementations are non-conformant to the intent of >> this >> specification (and that of [RFC2821] if they actually cause >> information to be lost). Again, even though this limitation is put >> on messages, it is encumbant upon implementations which display >> messages ... >> >> </quote> >> >> Mailman doesn't appear to fool with the line breaks in email sent to >> it for redistribution. Its internal archiver also appears to behave >> sensibly when processing long line into HTML archives files by only >> word wrapping long lines on white space to a reasonable length so that >> the <PRE> tagged message text displays sensibly with a web browser. So >> your long URL would survive intact transit through and archiving by >> MM. It certainly does on my MM system. >> >> Sendmail can be configured to limit line length so some MTA through >> which your mail is passing could be limiting line length though >> usually it will be to the 990 character limit. >> >> The MUA from whence the long URL originated is possible culprit. >> >> The fact is that the RFC admits the possibility of line length >> manipulation by Mail Agents although it could be regarded as >> anti-social to use the 78 char limit. The only way to ensure line >> break changes do not corrupt your data is to base64 encode it; not the >> most convenient solution, I grant you. >> >> ------------------------------------------------------ >> Mailman-Users mailing list >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users >> Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py >> Searchable Archives: >> http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ > > -- > ---------------------------------------------------------- > Sign up now for Quotes of the Day, a handful of quotations > on a theme delivered every morning. > Enlightenment! Daily, for free! > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=Subscribe_QOTD > > For web hosting and maintenance, > visit Van's home page: http://www.domainvanhorn.com/van/ > ----------------------------------------------------------
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