[156277] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: HXXP browser protocol
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Harlow)
Thu Sep 13 17:26:20 2012
From: Sean Harlow <sean@seanharlow.info>
In-Reply-To: <CABgOHgsL6rWY6UGMGPszVmhHdhZLGuWJZ_mSxRrdmawzn7PXig@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 17:25:16 -0400
To: Landon Stewart <lstewart@superb.net>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Sep 13, 2012, at 17:21, Landon Stewart wrote:
> All true and commonly used but it's worth mentioning that putting a =
space before the dot TLD is a better way to prevent auto linking in =
email/IM clients since most of them detect the formation URLs by other =
means rather than rely on the exitence of http://.
Certainly true, the machine I'm currently responding on runs Apple Mail =
5.2 and does turn it in to a link, but since hxxp is an invalid protocol =
it doesn't do anything useful with it. Clicking the link just gives a =
"no associated application" error, so the practical result is the same.
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Sean Harlow
sean@seanharlow.info=
