# Fly in the ointment?

Marc Andreessen (marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu)
Mon, 24 May 93 21:06:43 -0500

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    Date: Mon, 24 May 93 21:06:43 -0500

    From: marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Marc Andreessen)

    Message-Id: <9305250206.AA25351@wintermute.ncsa.uiuc.edu>

    To: Brian Capouch <brianc@saintjoe.EDU>

    Subject: Fly in the ointment?

    In-Reply-To: <0g0M1223LE06EshFwp@saintjoe.edu>

Brian Capouch writes:
> As part of my "mail-enabled xmosaic" project (details to follow) I sent
> around some URLs to some people so they could test my server by mailing
> them back to it.
>
> Guess what? RFC822's less-than-80-chars-per-line limit *broke* my URLs
> into a couple of lines (at my conformance-enforcing MTA), and the
> embedded CRLF caused the mail daemon to interpret the URLs as two
> separate (nonsensical) pieces.
>
> Am I right that this circumstance is absolutely going to have to be
> addressed, since it is extremely likely that many URLs will wind up
> exceeding the 80 char RFC822 limit? Or am I missing something really
> obvious?

You're right, and the answer seems to be to make sure the URL is
encoded in the mail message such that it conforms to 822's limitations
(MIME's quoted-printable or base64 encodings would be appropriate
here).

Marc

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    Marc Andreessen
    Software Development Group
    National Center for Supercomputing Applications
    marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu

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