Hi Jack and Albrecht, On 07/03/2018 01:52:12 PM Tue, Albrecht Dreß wrote:
Hi Jack: Am 03.07.18 19:25 schrieb(en) Jack via balsa-list:I recently received an email with the text Thank you for contacting the office of Congressman Joe Courtney. Due to large amounts of spam and fraudulent emails this account is not monitored. To ensure messages receive the Congressman's attention we ask that you share your thoughts through his website at https://courtney.house.gov/contact/email. Thank you. and Balsa nicely turned the URL into a link. Unfortunately, it included the ending period in the URL, which led to a 404 not found error, which I originally blamed on the sender, before realizing that it couldn't be their fault, since there is no markup in the plain text.I must admit that I also stumbled into this issue from time to time, but never cared. I'll look into that, should be easy to fix.
Me too! It seems to be a valid URI *with* the period, and some examples have been seen in the wild. For example <URL:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12092010/is-it-possible-to-create-a-uri-that-ends-with-a-period>, where software that silently *drops* the trailing period was causing problems. Balsa uses gtk_show_uri_on_window(), which gives an error on 'failure' that Balsa reports to the user. I've never seen such a report, so apparently a 404 is not a 'failure'.
Interestingly, there was also no markup of the link in the HTML version, so that version did not show a link, but I'll blame that on whichever library I am currently using for Balsa to display the HTML.I guess the HTML renderer will show a clickable link if and only if it is a “<a href="…">…</a>” HTML element. Did you check that in the html source? Cheers, Albrecht.
It seems to me that I've seen an HTML renderer that would 'linkify' a URI, but webkit doesn't seem to. Best, Peter
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