E-mail that crashes PMMail 2000

Thu, 13 Apr 2000 11:38:46 +0100 (BST)

On Wed, 12 Apr 2000 09:43:25 -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:

>Wednesday, April 12, 2000, 9:31:18 AM, Simon wrote:
>> Note that the message (as forwarded to me) did not resemble
>> valid HTML format (though the mime type claimed it was)!
>
>> It began:
>
>> IpVecIpV="ct%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2F326841526%2Findex.html@
>
>> Which is not a good way of starting an HTML page - not
>> valid HTML, even by MS's mis-standards!!
>
>    *cough*  You do know what a URL is and, by extension, what URL encoding
>is, right?  URL encoding is when you take all non-valid characters for a URL
>and encode them into their corresponding HEX values and prepend a %.  So the
>above, would read, "ct=http://326841526/index.html@"

1. Only URLs should be "URL encoded", it is not legal to encode HTML
   in this fashion, if a browser supports it, then that is just an 
   unfortunate coincidence!.
1. The first non comment/whitespace in an HTML doc should be "<HTML>",
   and not "IpVecIpV="ct%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2F326841526%2Findex.html@" (or even

>The problem is all of the encoding is screwing it up.
...and because it's screwed up, it is no longer valid HTML!

Simon