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Bug #340

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minor nit w/ issue tracker

Added by dillon over 17 years ago. Updated over 17 years ago.

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Description

Is it possible to get rid of the '<' and '>' around the URL at the
end of the issue tracker message ? It just makes cutting and pasting
into a browser easier.

-Matt

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:DragonFly issue tracker <issues@chlamydia.fs.ei.tum.de>
:<http://bugs.dragonflybsd.org/issue131> <<<<<<<<<< HERE

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Updated by mah over 17 years ago

Am 04.10.2006 um 19:12 schrieb Matthew Dillon:

Those two characters are needed by some eMail apps to make them
recognize URLs across line breaks correctly. Apple Mail is an example.

Markus

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Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter
http://www.jump-ing.de/

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Updated by erik-wikstrom over 17 years ago

On the other hand we'd have to generate a lot of bugs before that line
gets long enough to need any line-breaking.

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Updated by corecode over 17 years ago

To quote RFC2396 - Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI): Generic Syntax:

The angle-bracket "<" and ">" and double-quote (") characters are
   excluded because they are often used as the delimiters around URI in
   text documents and protocol fields.
[...]
   delims      = "<" | ">" | "#" | "%" | <">

I'd like to keep it that way. Andy Hauser suggested to use cutchars for X: