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On Sat, 27 Dec 2008 19:17:52 +0100
J G Miller <miller.RemoveThis@yoyo.ORG> wrote:

>And when I read the article I posted, although the link goes
>from one line to the next, Pan treats it as a single correct URL,
>and clicking on it brings up Epiphany with the spam report page.
>

That is, of course, the correct result. According to RFC1738 (next to
last paragraph in Appendix):

'In some cases, extra whitespace (spaces, linebreaks, tabs, etc.)
may need to be added to break long URLs across lines. The
whitespace should be ignored when extracting the URL.'

What I find interesting is that pan uses a CR/LF combination (as in
your msg's URL) rather than the standard Linux LF only. It just seems
curious that the pan developers use the Microsoft convention for line
ending rather than the Unix/Linux convention. Just an observation.

This has pointed up a bug in my newsreader where it correctly handles a
URL broken by a LF but *not* one broken by a CR/LF sequence. (I need to
file a bug report with them).


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