From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/17441 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alan Shutko Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: inconsistent button behavior (was: Re: nnfolder doesn't like mime & no base64 extracting(?)) Date: 28 Sep 1998 13:11:42 -0500 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035156141 954 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 23:22:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 23:22:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Original-Received: from gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (gizmo.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.102.31]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA18388 for ; Mon, 28 Sep 1998 14:14:37 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (sina.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.3.5]) by gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAF24453; Mon, 28 Sep 1998 12:44:21 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Mon, 28 Sep 1998 13:13:07 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [209.195.19.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA21581 for ; Mon, 28 Sep 1998 13:12:58 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from wugate.wustl.edu (wugate.wustl.edu [128.252.120.1]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA18358 for ; Mon, 28 Sep 1998 14:12:12 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from hubert.wuh.wustl.edu (ats@nb22-pool-1.wustl.edu [128.252.113.11]) by wugate.wustl.edu (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA12345; Mon, 28 Sep 1998 13:11:49 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (from ats@localhost) by hubert.wuh.wustl.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) id NAA01269; Mon, 28 Sep 1998 13:11:43 -0500 Original-To: John H Palmieri In-Reply-To: John H Palmieri's message of "28 Sep 1998 12:51:32 -500" Original-Lines: 26 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.42/Emacs 20.3 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:17441 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:17441 >>>>> "J" == John H Palmieri writes: J> I understand that the URL may be malformed, but should there really J> be a difference in behavior depending on whether I have a web J> browser running or not? It's the way netscape works. Gnus just passes the URL (which isn't) to Netscape. If netscape gets something that looks like a pathname on the CLI, it uses it as a pathname. But if you tell it with the netscape-remote stuff, it assumes it's a HTTP url. I guess a case could be made that Gnus should do some sanity checks on URLs before sending them out, but if someone marks something as a URL and it isn't, it's really their fault, not Gnus. I'd suggest in cases like this, simply email off explaining that http:// is only 7 characters and will improve interoperability with all software, and then cut and paste the partial URL into netscape. It's not that much work the few times it happens, and by emailing the person, you'll cause it to happen less. I don't think anyone _wants_ to cause problems by omitting http:// from URLs, they just don't realize it makes things more difficult. -- Alan Shutko - By consent of the corrupted IBM: It may be slow, but it's hard to use.