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Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 03/23/07 13:53
Toby A Inkster wrote:
> Jerry Stuckle wrote:
>
>> Not for me it doesn't, Toby. Thunderbird tells Firefox to load it with
>> the extra chars.
>
> The "extra chars" (by which, I'm assuming you mean the angled brackets) are
> *part* of the message ID. Note the Message-ID header of this message: it
> starts with a '<' and ends with a '>'.
>
> If you copy and paste the following URL into a browser (all of it,
> including the angled brackets), you should see it works:
>
> http://message-id.net/<2r0v64-o98.ln1@ophelia.g5n.co.uk>
>
> The following will also work
>
> http://message-id.net/2r0v64-o98.ln1@ophelia.g5n.co.uk
>
> but only because the PHP code at message-id.net is smart enough to
> transparently add on the angled brackets. However, in the case of
> Message-IDs that don't contain an at-sign (and some older newsreaders
> would produce articles that didn't), the second URL wouldn't work, as
> Message-ID.net uses the presence of either an at-sign or angled brackets to
> detect if the URL contains a Message-ID.
>
> Compare:
> http://message-id.net/<anews.Aucbarpa.111>
> http://message-id.net/anews.Aucbarpa.111
>
Hi, Toby,
Ah, but '<...>' has a meaning in usenet and email clients to be a
non-wrapping line - so you can put very long URLs and not have the wrap.
And Thunderbird takes the as a break. Effectively you have two pieces
here:
http://message-id.net/
and
2r0v64-o98.ln1@ophelia.g5n.co.uk
clicking before the '<' just takes one to message-id.net with no
parameters. Clicking between the '<' and '>' tries to send a message to
2r0v64-o98.ln1@ophelia.g5n.co.uk.
So while it works when pasted into a browser, it doesn't from at least
one popular newsreader client. IMHO, it's not a good idea to use '<'
and '>' in message id's because they have special meanings.
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