Re: mailto and &
by "Harold A. Driscoll" <harold(at)driscoll.chi.il.us>
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Fri, 17 Mar 2000 12:43:16 -0600 |
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John Suggate <j.suggate(at)ch.steiner.school.nz>, "'hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org'" <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org> |
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At 04:45 17-03-00 , Hans-Henrik T. Ohlsen wrote:
>I'm surprised that any of them validate. You're using the
>ampersand (&), and that's definitely a no-no in Internet
>addresses. you have 0-9 and a-z plus hyphen and
>underscore, and that's about it.
Where, pray tell, did you extract these ~Words of Wisdom~?
Let's refer to the technical specification for email addresses, IETF RFC
822 (August 13, 1982), where you'd find after a perusal of the BNF
productions, that such is very much _not_ the case. Note in particular the
definition of "addr-spec," and more particularly of "local-part."
Perhaps, you might have even noticed that even the address to which you
were sending your messages failed the rule-set you suggest.
> It's not some of your programs that are faulty -
> it's your choice of email address.
Nope. The choice of email address is quite valid. Perhaps not enlightened,
since it does use a character (&) that requires special handling in some
contexts, but nevertheless quite valid.
The answer to the original question is the basic rule of HTML that _every_
occurrence of the & character within _any_ HTML file needs to be quoted (as
& or &). Once that is done, once the problem reported by the HTML
validator is fixed, the problem goes away.
Safe computing, /Harold
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