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ph0ngwh0ng@at@gmail.dot.com - 31 Oct 2005 20:17 GMT

Hi!

I use javax.mail to send http mails that include urls. On some mail
clients, including Lotus iNotes, urls contained in the mail are
truncated. For example:

http://www.crappysite.com/index.html?param1=foo&param2=bar

becomes

http://www.crappysite.com/index.html?param1

Encoding in the email is set to "quoted-printable". I tried to set it
to "base64" but it didn't resolve the problem.

Thanks!

Alex

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Oliver Wong - 31 Oct 2005 20:30 GMT

> Hi!
>
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> Encoding in the email is set to "quoted-printable". I tried to set it
> to "base64" but it didn't resolve the problem.

You need to escape the equals character. Quoted Printable and Base 64
are two different formats that coincidentally both treat the '=' character
specially.

- Oliver

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ph0ngwh0ng@at@gmail.dot.com - 31 Oct 2005 20:38 GMT

And I escape with the " \ " ?

Alex

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ph0ngwh0ng@at@gmail.dot.com - 31 Oct 2005 20:55 GMT

Ok. Like that:

http://www.crappysite.com/index.html?me&#61dummy...

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ph0ngwh0ng@at@gmail.dot.com - 31 Oct 2005 20:57 GMT

Argh... I meant the <ampersand>#61..

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Oliver Wong - 31 Oct 2005 21:33 GMT

> Ok. Like that:

[URL snipped]

Damn... Next time warn me that the link is not work safe. =P I thought
you had posted the code there and wanted me to take a look at it to verify
that it was correct.

but to answer your question, yes, if that works, you can do that, but
that's not the standard way of escaping the '=' character in either
encoding. If you're gonna go with Base64, it's described in RFCs 1421 and
2045.

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1421.txt

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2045.txt

- Oliver

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Roedy Green - 31 Oct 2005 21:16 GMT

On 31 Oct 2005 11:17:56 -0800, "ph0ngwh0ng@at@gmail.dot.com"
<ph0ngwh0ng@gmail.com> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who
said :

>I use javax.mail to send http mails that include urls. On some mail
>clients, including Lotus iNotes, urls contained in the mail are
[quoted text clipped - 5 lines]
>
>http://www.crappysite.com/index.html?param1

I suppose need to use a hex viewer to see what Lotus Notes likes and
does not like. Once you know that it will be much easier to tell you
how to encode the URLs to keep it happy.

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Roedy Green - 31 Oct 2005 21:46 GMT

On 31 Oct 2005 11:17:56 -0800, "ph0ngwh0ng@at@gmail.dot.com"
<ph0ngwh0ng@gmail.com> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who
said :

>http://www.crappysite.com/index.html?param1=foo&param2=bar

I would try a simple URLEncode on that prior to any message
level-encoding. It can't hurt.

see http://mindprod.com/jgloss/urlencoded.html

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