Closed Bug 123333 Opened 23 years ago Closed 22 years ago

URL highlight gets chopped at the >

Categories

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Product:
SeaMonkey
Component:
MailNews: Message Display
Platform:
x86
Windows 2000
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
VERIFIED INVALID

People

(Reporter: jamesrome, Assigned: sspitzer)

References

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URL
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Details

http://servicenews.symantec.com/cgi-bin/displayArticle.cgi?group=symantec.support.winnt.nortonantivirus2001.general&article=<1020104142209.2202362336@servicenews.symantec.com>&product=nav&mini_version=nav2001&tpre=sg

was in the reply to a question I asked to symantec. But the link stops after
symantec.com> and hence does not work.
It shows up when I view this page, so I guess it is a browser issue...
RFC 2396 < ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2396.txt > clearly states in chapter
2.4.3. Excluded US-ASCII Characters that "<" and ">" are NOT allowed in an URI:

    "The angle-bracket "<" and ">" and double-quote (") characters are
    excluded because they are often used as the delimiters around URI in
    text documents and protocol fields."

Suggesting "invalid". Complain to Symantec!



Maybe I shouldn't have been so bold...

RFC 2396 states in the abstract:

    "This document does not define a generative
    grammar for URI; that task will be performed by the individual
    specifications of each URI scheme."

Which means that RFC 1738 should be consulted. As far as I can tell
from the productions in chapter 5, "<" and ">" belong to "punctuation".
Hence they can NOT be part of an URL.

Do people agree?


I agree :-)
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 22 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
verified
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Product: Browser → Seamonkey
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