(*** This bug was imported into bugs.kde.org ***) Package: knode Version: KDE 3.0.0 Severity: wishlist Installed from: SuSE RPMs Compiler: Not Specified OS: Not Specified OS/Compiler notes: Not Specified Quite often long URLs on usenet are enclosed in angle brackets. Many newsreaders respect these angle brackets as start and end of url markers. So a URL like <http://www.someplace.dom/whatever/ somethingelse/here.jpg> is interpreted as a single URL. I know of no "official" standard however it appears to be honored by many newsreaders and due to this is becoming a fairly common practice in discussion groups. It is common enough so that when someone placed a space after the first bracket many people complained that the link wouldn't work... somebody posted the link again without the space (but still on several lines) and it worked for everybody but myself and one other reader (using Gravity newsreader). Of course a really nice solution would also to autodetect if a URL is split across many lines. Reliably detecting that however is not among the most easy tasks. :) (Submitted via bugs.kde.org)
Yes, there is an "official" standard for this convention: RFC 1738. It is described in the appendix: APPENDIX: Recommendations for URLs in Context URIs, including URLs, are intended to be transmitted through protocols which provide a context for their interpretation. In some cases, it will be necessary to distinguish URLs from other possible data structures in a syntactic structure. In this case, is recommended that URLs be preceeded with a prefix consisting of the characters "URL:". For example, this prefix may be used to distinguish URLs from other kinds of URIs. In addition, there are many occasions when URLs are included in other kinds of text; examples include electronic mail, USENET news messages, or printed on paper. In such cases, it is convenient to have a separate syntactic wrapper that delimits the URL and separates it from the rest of the text, and in particular from punctuation marks that might be mistaken for part of the URL. For this purpose, is recommended that angle brackets ("<" and ">"), along with the prefix "URL:", be used to delimit the boundaries of the URL. This wrapper does not form part of the URL and should not be used in contexts in which delimiters are already specified. In practice, however, the prefix "URL:" is usually dropped and the angle brackets alone are used. Anyway, this bug is quite old. Are such URLs still causing a problem in recent versions of KNode?
Hello! Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but this project has been unmaintained for many years so I am closing this bug.