(slightly OT) Dilbert

[Glenn Carnagey]

On May 5, 2008, at 7:40 PM, steve harley wrote:

> they whom i call LuKreme wrote:
>> On 5-May-2008, at 11:31, steve harley wrote:
>>> <http://feeds.feedburner.com/DilbertDailyStrip>
>> feedburner brings up a non-delimited URL in the form of:
>> http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/DilbertDailyStrip/~3/281938514/
>> which, because of the un-encoded '~', is not recognized by  
>> mail.app, and so this RSS feed is 100% useless.
>
> i wouldn't know about Leopard Mail, but it worked in NetNewsWire and  
> Safari; i'm no expert on such matters but it appears RFC 3986  
> declares tildes "unreserved" and permissible un-encoded within URLs


yeah, that's just a bug in Mail.app.   how many local web homes are  
out there with ~username as their DocRoot?   I dunno, but it's a lot....

frankly, Mail.app URL recognition leaves a lot to be desired.  sure,  
it would be nice if we all used tinyurl and <...>, but until utopia  
arrives it would be nice if it "just worked". ;-)

g./




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