Subject: Re: patch: credit link typo in help files
From: Pierre Abbat (phma@oltronics.net)
Date: Mon Aug 28 2000 - 18:15:55 CDT
On Mon, 28 Aug 2000, Karl Ove Hufthammer wrote:
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Pierre Abbat" <phma@oltronics.net>
>To: "AbiWord Mailing List" <abiword-dev@abisource.com>
>Sent: Sunday, August 27, 2000 1:26 AM
>Subject: Re: patch: credit link typo in help files
>
>| >BTW, while fixing that, I noticed that all the mailto: links are
>| >formatted as <mailto:%20user@example.com>. That is, they have an
>| >embedded space encoded as "%20". What's up with that? Seems to still
>| >work, but why is it there in the first place? Does some browser need
>| >it to make proper sense of it?
>|
>| Probably an antispam device. Spambots may not recognize %20 as
>| an encoding for
>| a space and the spammer will send mail to %20user@example.com, which will
>| bounce.
>
>Won't (standards complient) e-mail clients do the same thing?
The standard here is HTTP, not mail. You click on "mailto:%20user@example.com",
and your browser tells your mailer to compose a message to " user@example.com".
The MUA or MTA then ignores the space.
phma
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