| Summary | Improperly formatted <a href> tags in html messages |
| Queue | IMP |
| Queue Version | 4.0.3 |
| Type | Bug |
| State | Not A Bug |
| Priority | 1. Low |
| Owners | |
| Requester | mp (at) xmission (dot) com |
| Created | 12/02/2005 (7235 days ago) |
| Due | |
| Updated | 12/27/2005 (7210 days ago) |
| Assigned | 12/02/2005 (7235 days ago) |
| Resolved | 12/27/2005 (7210 days ago) |
| Github Issue Link | |
| Github Pull Request | |
| Milestone | |
| Patch | No |
State ⇒ Not A Bug
State ⇒ Feedback
Priority ⇒ 1. Low
vulnerabilities, which always find ways to take advantage of allowing
invalid HTML, I doubt we'll do anything about it. Personally it's more
important to avoid exploits than to make accomodations for broken email.
State ⇒ Unconfirmed
Priority ⇒ 2. Medium
Type ⇒ Bug
Summary ⇒ Improperly formatted <a href> tags in html messages
Queue ⇒ IMP
which the URL is not properly surrounded by quotes, Horde encodes the
closing '>' as '%3E' which causes the opening <a> tag not to be
closed. This prevents the linked text from showing up in the body of
the message because the resulting HTML is invalid.
For example, a link in a body of a message such as:
<a href="http://www.horde.org>Horde</a>
works just fine.
However, the following HTML will not display the linked text in the
IMP message view:
<a href=http://www.horde>Horde</a>
Now, I know that this is the result of invalid HTML to begin with, but
this does work on at least some other clients, (Thunderbird for
instance) as well as working on IMP 3.2.8. Unfortunetly, of course,
some MUAs are still broken and this causes real headaches for users
trying to read HTML messages sent by those clients.