linux-kernel - Re: kernel mailing list permalinks

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Date:	Tue, 06 Aug 2013 14:23:36 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>
CC:	Shuah Khan <shuahkhan@...il.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	postmaster@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: kernel mailing list permalinks

On 08/06/2013 02:11 PM, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
>>
>> The above link is also a good example of subtleness: + in a URL means a
>> space character, it has to be escaped as %2B.  Particularly a problem in
>> gmail message-ids.
> 
> Ooh, thanks.  I wasn't aware of that, and I've certainly constructed
> links that are semi-broken because of this issue.  Having the
> permalink in the message footer would avoid that problem.
> 
> I don't know what it would take to implement this.  Escaping special
> characters makes it not quite as trivial as I thought it might be.
> 

Part of me wonders if we could/should make the bouncer recognize that a
space character is not a valid part of a Message-ID (I think) and change
it back into a +.

A quoted Message-ID might be weird as heck, but one rarely if ever see
them, I don't know if they are even legal.

	-hpa


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