Display URL issues

[chris-610]

Hello,

We are currently having an issue with URL formatting in Squirremail when a plain text message is opened the URL link is not properly displayed so a user can click on it an take them to the full URL destination.  The highlighting stops when Squirrelmail comes across the ( or ) in the URL.

Here is an example of the URL:

http://nscincentiverewards.com/rd_p?p=137148&t=1360&c=20692-ipodtrv_120_pzangelinalips-a&a=(this)-is-a-test=a&a37148&t=1360&c=20692-7podtrv81367a946f7743fb58b71aa040a12c5c5c9a95df

The characters () seem to be valid according to RFC 1738

No matter where in the link you move the ( or ) character the displaying of the URL in Squirrelmail stops at the characters.

Has anyone else seen this behavior or know how to fix the problem?

Here is the server versions:

OS version: Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 4 (Nahant Update 6)
Mysql version: mysql  Ver 14.7 Distrib 4.1.20
PHP version: PHP 4.3.9
Squirrelmail version: squirrelmail-1.4.13

Thank you,

Chris Beane

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[Paul Lesniewski]

On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 8:28 AM, chris <chris@...> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> We are currently having an issue with URL formatting in Squirremail when a
> plain text message is opened the URL link is not properly displayed so a
> user can click on it an take them to the full URL destination.  The
> highlighting stops when Squirrelmail comes across the ( or ) in the URL.
>
> Here is an example of the URL:
>
> http://nscincentiverewards.com/rd_p?p=137148&t=1360&c=20692-ipodtrv_120_pzangelinalips-a&a=(this)-is-a-test=a&a37148&t=1360&c=20692-7podtrv81367a946f7743fb58b71aa040a12c5c5c9a95df
>
> The characters () seem to be valid according to RFC 1738

It's not just a matter of RFC in the case of webmail.  The problem is
that a lot of people put URIs in an assortment of places in their
emails... for example, in parenthesis
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parenthesis) or other places that make
parsing the URI out of the email text challenging to say the least.

> No matter where in the link you move the ( or ) character the displaying of
> the URL in Squirrelmail stops at the characters.
>
> Has anyone else seen this behavior or know how to fix the problem?

You can "fix" the issue by opening functions/url_parser.php and find
the line where $url_parser_poss_ends is defined (probably line 84),
and remove both "(" and ")" from that list.

> Here is the server versions:
>
> OS version: Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 4 (Nahant Update 6)
> Mysql version: mysql  Ver 14.7 Distrib 4.1.20
> PHP version: PHP 4.3.9
> Squirrelmail version: squirrelmail-1.4.13
>

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[chris-610]

Thank you very much.  This has fixed our issue with parenthesis.

Chris

On Tue, 2008-07-01 at 19:28 -0700, Paul Lesniewski wrote:

On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 8:28 AM, chris <chris@...> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> We are currently having an issue with URL formatting in Squirremail when a
> plain text message is opened the URL link is not properly displayed so a
> user can click on it an take them to the full URL destination.  The
> highlighting stops when Squirrelmail comes across the ( or ) in the URL.
>
> Here is an example of the URL:
>
> http://nscincentiverewards.com/rd_p?p=137148&t=1360&c=20692-ipodtrv_120_pzangelinalips-a&a=(this)-is-a-test=a&a37148&t=1360&c=20692-7podtrv81367a946f7743fb58b71aa040a12c5c5c9a95df
>
> The characters () seem to be valid according to RFC 1738

It's not just a matter of RFC in the case of webmail.  The problem is
that a lot of people put URIs in an assortment of places in their
emails... for example, in parenthesis
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parenthesis) or other places that make
parsing the URI out of the email text challenging to say the least.

> No matter where in the link you move the ( or ) character the displaying of
> the URL in Squirrelmail stops at the characters.
>
> Has anyone else seen this behavior or know how to fix the problem?

You can "fix" the issue by opening functions/url_parser.php and find
the line where $url_parser_poss_ends is defined (probably line 84),
and remove both "(" and ")" from that list.

> Here is the server versions:
>
> OS version: Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 4 (Nahant Update 6)
> Mysql version: mysql  Ver 14.7 Distrib 4.1.20
> PHP version: PHP 4.3.9
> Squirrelmail version: squirrelmail-1.4.13
>

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