From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuahkhan@gmail.com>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
postmaster@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: kernel mailing list permalinks
Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2013 14:23:36 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <52016958.70005@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAErSpo7z7b-i7qENa9q+8jLmsV=EFiykBy5wU1AE3eAMG1MKUA@mail.gmail.com>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-08-06 21:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-08-02 21:04 kernel mailing list permalinks Bjorn Helgaas
2013-08-02 21:36 ` Shuah Khan
2013-08-02 21:38 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-08-06 21:11 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2013-08-06 21:15 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-08-06 21:23 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2013-08-06 21:55 ` Anders Larsen
2013-08-06 23:05 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-08-06 23:15 ` Joe Perches
2013-08-07 3:39 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-08-07 3:44 ` Joe Perches
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