123333 - URL highlight gets chopped at the >

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[James Rome]

http://servicenews.symantec.com/cgi-bin/displayArticle.cgi?group=symantec.support.winnt.nortonantivirus2001.general&article=<[e-mail]>&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.

Comment 1

[James Rome]

It shows up when I view this page, so I guess it is a browser issue...

Comment 2

[Karl Johan Kleist]

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!

Comment 3

[Karl Johan Kleist]

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?

Comment 4

[[e-mail]]

I agree :-)

Comment 5

[[e-mail] (gone - use [e-mail] instead)]

verified