On 2010-07-14, Erik Christiansen wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 09:16:21AM -0700, Gary Johnson wrote:
> > On 2010-07-13, Erik Christiansen wrote:
> > > I had thought that "=3D" was a m$-ism?
> >
> > The "=" at the end of the line and "=3D" stuff is quoted-printable,
> > a type of Content-Transfer-Encoding defined by RFC 2045. Mutt
> > already knows how to deal with that and decodes it before piping the
> > result to w3m.
> >
> > Is the URL in the text of the message, or is it embedded within an
> > <A tag? Posting the problematic URL with a few lines of context may
> > help us see the problem better.
>
> It's in an A tag: (I've munged some of the href's characters in this post)
>
> <td height=3D"60" colspan=3D"3" align=3D"center" valign=3D"middle=
> "><font face=3D"Arial" color=3D"#666666" style=3D"font-size:10px"><a titl=
> e=3D"View Email Online link" href=3D"http://example.media.xyz.com.au:80/t=
> rack?t=3Dv&mid=3D45671&msgid=3D87652&did=3D87641&edid=3D26341&sn=3D374852=
> 7545&eid=3df...@example.stuff.net&eeid=3df...@example.stuff.net&uid=3D9=
> 56897&rid=3D234564&erid=3D234564&fl=3D&mvid=3D&extra=3D&&&2000&eu=3D425&&=
> &viewonline" style=3D"color: #666666">Click here if you cannot view this =
> email properly</a></span><br />=20
If the URL is embedded within an <A ...> tag, as this one is, then
w3m will not display it. That is, in an HTML link written like
this,
<A href="http://foo.com";>bar</A>
w3m will display "bar" but not "http://foo.com";.
In your original post you said that the URL was rendered as "*".
Did the "*" appear instead of "Click here if you cannot view this
email properly" or was the "*" in front of "Click here ..."?
> > What happens if you open the attachment in the attachment menu?
> > That will use w3m to display the message instead of just using w3m
> > as a filter. Do you see the "*" as a link?
>
> It's not an attachment. The message is only text/html.
> (Yes, I do dump 99% of them, just not this one. :)
I guess I should have been more clear and written, "What happens if
you open the attachment or the message in the attachment menu?" I
expect w3m to highlight the link but not display the URL.
If your w3m is configured to allow the use of an external browser,
typing
<Esc>M
on the link will open the link in the external browser.
Regards,
Gary
