LYNX-DEV [Fwd: Re: http://www.python.org/psa/Members.html]

[Markus Fleck]

Ken Manheimer wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 6 Jan 1998, Markus Fleck wrote:
> 
> > <http://www.python.org/psa/Members.html>:
> >
> > The "mailto:"; HREFs on this page contain spaces - there
> > is at least one browser (lynx) that cannot handle mailto:
> > URLs with spaces in them.
> >
> > Actually, HREF URLs should always be "URL-encoded",
> > replacing parentheses, spaces etc. with their
> > respective %xx encodings, e.g. %20 for a space
> > character (HEX 20 = DECIMAL 32 = ASCII SPACE).
> >
> > You will probably want to change this to make
> > your pages usable with all WWW browsers.
> 
> Yes, i guess you're right.  I've changed the generating code to quote
> the url's.  Thanks for pointing it out!
> 
> (Surprisingly, the version of lynx i'm using for tests - 2.7.1 - seems
> to still smoosh together the mailto url contents, even when separated
> with %20's.  Furthermore, it seems to work just the same with the
> unquoted urls.  Oh well - at least the urls are now "right".)
> 
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