Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] headers gone wild!

[Michael <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

> ...which has been translated using MHonArc.  You will see a few '=20's 
> in there and all of them look like they should be spaces.  You will 
> also see some '=EA', '=E5' and '=E6' which should be ê, å and æ, 
> respectively. That shows that the '=XX' correspondes to ascii 
> character XX where XX is the hexadecimal value.
>
> That solves the mystery of what they mean, but it doesn't answer our 
> questions about why they get there, nor does it explain extra equal 
> signs not followed by hex codes.

I thought maybe they were some kind of Unicode type of thing because I 
see them a lot in non-English mail but that doesn't explain the most 
annoying ones because I get them in odd places such as in the middle of 
a URL which has no such symbols in it. For example I get a lot in images 
that are myimage.gi=f which obviously isn't right (and doesn't work).So 
far the most functional solution I've found is to just try downloading 
the original URL as is and if it doesn't work to remove all '=' 
characters and try again. This usually works but not always.

It's rather odd really. I think it's probably where the charset gets 
freaked up when messages are resent or maybe lines are wrapped as 
plain-text when they should be treated as HTML and somehow that inserts 
'=' characters. All-in-all it's just because email is an ancient and 
organic creature that keeps having layer upon layer of crap added rather 
than just reinventing the wheel.

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Michael <EMAIL:PROTECTED>
http://kavlon.org

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