[Noisebridge-discuss] URLs (Re: new, inexpensive way to clean water)

[Joshua Juran]

On Jan 19, 2012, at 10:11 AM, Shannon Lee wrote:

> Yeah, gmail worked just spiffy with the original link in Jim's  
> email but didn't handle the angle-bracketed link at all.

That's definitely a bug -- unless Google intends to be non-standards- 
conforming.

Quoting from RFC 3986, Uniform Resource Identifier (URI): Generic  
Syntax:

"Using <> angle brackets around each URI is especially recommended as  
a delimiting style for a reference that contains embedded whitespace."

http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986#appendix-C

Josh


> On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 9:21 AM, Gopiballava Flaherty  
> <gopiballava at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jan 19, 2012, at 10:08, Joshua Juran <jjuran at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Solution:  Use angle brackets.
> >
> > <http://www.laboratoryequipment.com/news-Miracle-Trees-Purify-
> > Water-011912.aspx?et_cid=2432472&et_rid=54634865&linkid=http%3a%2f%
> > 2fwww.laboratoryequipment.com%2fnews-Miracle-Trees-Purify-
> > Water-011912.aspx>
>
> Result: no difference.
>
> (Maybe some email clients are different, but this one didn't do  
> anything differently...)