Re: Error in URL detection

Robert Grimm <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.slrn.user
Organization Disorganized
Message-ID <[email protected]>
andrew <[email protected]> wrote:
> I can confirm this with 0.9.9p1 although it took me a little while to
> realise that you meant the URI as follows:

> +--------------------

> (http://www.tinyurl.com/)I

> +--------------------

> To be fair Mutt makes the same assumption and fails in the same way.

,----[ RFC 1738 ]
|    Thus, only alphanumerics, the special characters "$-_.+!*'(),", and
|    reserved characters used for their reserved purposes may be used
|    unencoded within a URL.
`----

Try (http://robgri.de/My)url) with space.
and (http://robgri.de/My)url)without space.
and (http://robgri.de/My)url)nonexistant without space.

How might slrn be able to distinguish between a missing space and a
valid url? 

IMO <> should be used as url delimiter, not ().

>   Andrew

Rob
-- 
I don't know why and I'm not yet motivated to fix 
it since my views on esd are mostly unprintable.
			-- Alan Cox


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