Testing of HTML in messages
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Director at Skywire
20 December 2000 13:51pm
This is a test if it is possible to put <A HREF="http://www.e-consultancy.com/">links</A> into messages?
Alex
Director at Skywire
20 December 2000 13:52pm
Nope - Matt, what URL parsing are we doing on messages?
A
On 13:51:11 20 December 2000 Alex wrote:
>This is a test if it is possible to put <A
>HREF="http://www.e-consultancy.com/">links<-
>;/A> into messages?
>
>Alex
Founder / Director / Co-founder at easyBacklog / Aqueduct / Econsultancy
20 December 2000 16:16pm
Hi Alex
We are picking up what looks like a url i.e.
www.xxx.com
http://www.xxx.com
We do not support HTML tags at all....
Cheers.
Matt
CEO at Econsultancy
20 December 2000 18:25pm
Less linking to porn site please ;)
Director at Skywire
20 December 2000 18:39pm
Cool. Thanks Matt.
On 16:16:12 20 December 2000 matt wrote:
>Hi Alex
>
>We are picking up what looks like a url i.e.
>www.xxx.com
>http://www.xxx.com
>
>
>We do not support HTML tags at all....
>
>Cheers.
>Matt
Director at Skywire
20 December 2000 18:40pm
I think it might have a problem with URLs with parameters in it though? Lets try
http://www.test.com/?sitename=www.test.com
On 18:39:51 20 December 2000 Alex wrote:
>Cool. Thanks Matt.
>
>On 16:16:12 20 December 2000 matt wrote:
>>Hi Alex
>>
>>We are picking up what looks like a url i.e.
>>www.xxx.com
>>http://www.xxx.com
>>
>>
>>We do not support HTML tags at all....
>>
>>Cheers.
>>Matt
Director at Skywire
20 December 2000 18:41pm
Nope I'm lying. Appears to work ;-)
On 18:40:45 20 December 2000 Alex wrote:
>I think it might have a problem with URLs with parameters
>in it though? Lets try
>
>http://www.test.com/?sitename=www.test.com
>
>On 18:39:51 20 December 2000 Alex wrote:
>>Cool. Thanks Matt.
>>
>>On 16:16:12 20 December 2000 matt wrote:
>>>Hi Alex
>>>
>>>We are picking up what looks like a url i.e.
>>>www.xxx.com
>>>http://www.xxx.com
>>>
>>>
>>>We do not support HTML tags at all....
>>>
>>>Cheers.
>>>Matt
Director at Skywire
20 December 2000 18:41pm
However the mailto: links screw up in replies. One for you Matt!
A
On 18:41:18 20 December 2000 Alex wrote:
>Nope I'm lying. Appears to work ;-)
>
>On 18:40:45 20 December 2000 Alex wrote:
>>I think it might have a problem with URLs with
>parameters
>>in it though? Lets try
>>
>>http://www.test.com/?sitename=www.test.com
>>
>>On 18:39:51 20 December 2000 Alex wrote:
>>>Cool. Thanks Matt.
>>>
>>>On 16:16:12 20 December 2000 matt wrote:
>>>>Hi Alex
>>>>
>>>>We are picking up what looks like a url i.e.
>>>>www.xxx.com
>>>>http://www.xxx.com
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>We do not support HTML tags at all....
>>>>
>>>>Cheers.
>>>>Matt
Founder / Director / Co-founder at easyBacklog / Aqueduct / Econsultancy
21 December 2000 09:59am
On 18:41:45 20 December 2000 Alex wrote:
>However the mailto: links screw up in replies. One for you Matt!
Good one, will have a look at it.
Matt
Founder / Director / Co-founder at easyBacklog / Aqueduct / Econsultancy
16 January 2001 18:43pm
Hi Alex
I have managed to fix this one. Was quite a nasty one as it is difficult to build a regular expression which ignores & but stops on any other &xxx; encoding.
Anyway, have a look at the dev site where it is fixed, if it interests you on:
http://e-consultancy.plastercine.co.uk/forum/default.asp?v=383&p=1
Matt