Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 06 Aug 2013 14:23:36 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: kernel mailing list permalinks |
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On 08/06/2013 02:11 PM, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: >> >> The above link is also a good example of subtleness: + in a URL means a >> space character, it has to be escaped as %2B. Particularly a problem in >> gmail message-ids. > > Ooh, thanks. I wasn't aware of that, and I've certainly constructed > links that are semi-broken because of this issue. Having the > permalink in the message footer would avoid that problem. > > I don't know what it would take to implement this. Escaping special > characters makes it not quite as trivial as I thought it might be. >
Part of me wonders if we could/should make the bouncer recognize that a space character is not a valid part of a Message-ID (I think) and change it back into a +.
A quoted Message-ID might be weird as heck, but one rarely if ever see them, I don't know if they are even legal.
-hpa
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