Closed Bug 372747 Opened 17 years ago Closed 17 years ago

Wrapping URLs not detected as links, even when following w3c convention

Categories

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

x86
Windows XP
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 5351

People

(Reporter: mlibbeymail-mozillabugs, Assigned: mscott)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070219 Firefox/2.0.0.2
Build Identifier: version 2 beta 2 (20070116)

Outlook and other clients frequently break up long links into multiple lines.  For instance, 
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&
short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&short_desc=url&product=Thunderbird&
long_desc_type=substring&long_desc=&bug_file_loc_type=allwordssubstr&
bug_file_loc=&status_whiteboard_type=allwordssubstr&status_whiteboard=&
keywords_type=allwords&keywords=&resolution=DUPLICATE&resolution=---
&emailassigned_to1=1&emailtype1=exact&email1=&emailassigned_to2=1&
emailreporter2=1&emailqa_contact2=1&emailtype2=exact&email2=&bugidtype=include
&bug_id=&votes=&chfieldfrom=&chfieldto=Now&chfieldvalue=&cmdtype=doit&order=
Reuse+same+sort+as+last+time&field0-0-0=noop&type0-0-0=noop&value0-0-0=

The W3C convention 
http://www.w3.org/Addressing/URL/5.1_Wrappers.html
is to put <> around long links <http://mozilla.org>.  Thunderbird doesn't recognize this convention, so, long links that start with < wrap, making them un-clickable (and a royal pain for users that have to do multiple cut and paste).

Several extensions have tried to solve this (though most of these do several other things too):
https://addons.mozilla.org/thunderbird/4514/
https://addons.mozilla.org/thunderbird/132/
https://addons.mozilla.org/thunderbird/403/
https://addons.mozilla.org/thunderbird/1288/

Ideally, multi-line urls would be fully linked, but minimally, multiline links encased in <> should be recognized as a single multiline url. (That > is both the quoting character and the ending character may be a problem, though perhaps one could assume that lines beginning with > would not end the link.

Reproducible: Always

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Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 17 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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