Question

Several of our users have had a problem when they include a link to a twiki page in an e-mail. Often the hyperlink ends up with a line break inserted into the string. When the recipient of the e-mail tries the link they one of two things happens. Either they get a 404 error, or, if they click on the broken address link it goes bad for good (prompting for a userid/pwd), no matter what browser (both Explorer and Mozilla Firefox) - EVEN - if they then follow with pasting the rest of the missing address and then browsing/refreshing again. Is there a way to direct them to some default page or take them to the base twiki group?

-- LindaCapetilloCunliffe - 04 Apr 2006

Answer

See http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/004978.html

I beleive there are also extentions for Thunderbird/Firefox so you can highlight a multi-line URL and then click

See also:

• http://www.volleynerd.com/firefox/extensions/ for unwrapping multiline URLs
• https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?application=firefox&category=Web%20Annoyances&numpg=10&id=403

For emails, it reconnects links in emails which have been broken across several lines, and also replaces spaces with the URL character code %20 so that you may follow emailed network 'file:' links (which it auto-detects from Windows X: or servdir references).

-- AntonAylward - 04 Apr 2006

For Outlucked (sorry, Outlook) users:

• http://www.slipstick.com/mail1/longline.htm
• http://www.cyberwalker.net/columns/jan01/110101.html
• http://pcworld.about.com/magazine/1906p186id47506.htm

-- PeterThoeny - 06 Apr 2006