On Sat, Jan 06, 2018 at 09:22:48PM +0000, Beartooth wrote: > Firefox, along with few other browsers, has one valuable feature > that should spread. If you copy a *long* link (like, say, three to five > lines long in an email) into its address bar, it will eliminate the > spaces that come from line ends, and go to the site. [...] > Could Fedora maybe go into the code, say between any browser and > the networking code that tells the computer to send a link, and insert > something to clean the link before acting on it?
First of all, this kind of change in software behavior is generally sometime we'd avoid even if the intention is good. Too easy to introduce bugs. It's better to work with upstreams. But second, HTTP doesn't work this way. TCP uses a five layer model, and the path part of the URL is part of the application layer -- which is to say there is no central "networking code" which handles this. Some applications _may_ share a library which implements http (maybe they use libcurl), but most web browsers implement their own. So, this needs to be addressed at the application level. Or you could just use Firefox, which as you note, already does what you want. -- Matthew Miller <mat...@fedoraproject.org> Fedora Project Leader _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
