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John-Mark Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Please reply to the mailing list, not me direct, thanks.
Sorry about that, I used a different system to usual and forgot
messenger pro was set to reply to list. Is it possible for the mailing
list to either set a reply to or to come from the group?
> On Fri, 2 May 2008, jess hampshire wrote:
>
>> 2008/5/1 John-Mark Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>>
>>> Ok, this has now been reported on the bug tracker with a log file. The
>>> answer is that NetSurf is being less tolerant of junk input than other
>>> browsers. However, the URL you're redirecting to contains spaces. These
>>> should be percent encoded (i.e replaced with %20).
>>>
>>> At some point in the relatively near future, I'd expect NetSurf to handle
>>> this case. It's not an entirely trivial fix, however.
>>
>> When Netsurf can deal with invalid input, would it be a good idea for
>> it to prefix the referrer information reported to the site with
>> something like Invalid information from http://xxxx best guess
>> attempted? Or would that break standards?
>
> Regardless of whether it broke standards (which it would, incidentally),
> it'd break real-world web sites. Thus, it's not something we'd want to be
> doing. Note also that the Referer header is not affected by HTTP
> redirects (i.e. it is preserved across them).
That's a shame, it would be nice for some of the garbage out there to
get noted in some system logs
--
Jess
http://jess.itworkshop-nexus.net
