| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Andrew Sullivan <ajs(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
| Cc: | pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Message-ID should surely not be shown as a mailto: URL |
| Date: | 2008-06-09 14:38:49 |
| Message-ID: | 19073.1213022329@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Andrew Sullivan <ajs(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> On Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 02:30:55AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> I don't pretend to know what is the approved way to deal with these
>> issues, but *this* can't be best practice.
> Obviously, someone is looking for something that _looks_ like a mail
> address, attempting to munge it, and on the way through, changing it
> to a mailto: link. I think some parsing of the RFC2821/2822 headers
> is needed first, so that one doesn't do this for things like the
> message id.
What I'm complaining about is the logical disconnect involved in
sticking a mailto: onto an address that you have carefully made
unusable for sending mail to. I don't have a problem with munging
all of them, just leave off the mailto decoration.
regards, tom lane
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