Re: Passing URLs to browser

On 8 Feb 2018  Jim Nagel <mpro@...> wrote:

> Richard Porter  wrote on 7 Feb:
>> If a web address in a message is enclosed in brackets Messenger Pro
>> sends the closing bracket to the browser (NetSurf) with the closing
>> bracket, which causes a 404 error.

> Here's a parenthesized test (http://archivemag.co.uk) using MPro 7.08
> (2015feb16) on ArmX6 (5.23 R-Comp OS10), Netsurf #4316.

> I tested this in three successive situations:
>  * Ctrl-click URL here in Emailedit where I'm writing this ---
>  * "Defer" my message within Messenger and then open it in Deferred
> folder (ie, in prettier display format, not Emailedit), click URL ---
>  * Actually send message to one of my other addresses via the big wide
> internet and then click the URL in the Messenger format I receive ---

> In all three situations, Netsurf shows no closing parenthesis in its
> URL field, and works OK.

> Dunno which versions of the software(s) you are using.  Maybe the
> glitch is been cured if you update.

Same MPro, same OS, same successful result.

> By the way, just curious:  Who maintains Messenger these days?
> Is it a particular person in the R-Comp band, or Andrew R himself?
> (despite his current painful armlessness -- we feel for him)

I think it's Andrew himself, but could be wrong.

Best wishes,

Peter.

-- 
Peter Young (zfc Pt) and family
Prestbury, Cheltenham, Glos. GL52, England
http://pnyoung.orpheusweb.co.uk
pnyoung@...

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