#14140 closed enhancement (fixed)
Wrap URL for password reset in angle brackets
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| Priority: | normal | Milestone: | 3.1 |
| Component: | Version: | 3.0 | |
| Severity: | normal | Keywords: | has-patch |
| Cc: | demetris, prodevstudio+wordpress@…, ian_dunn@… |
Description
Some email clients do not handle well URLs that wrap across lines; that is, they fail to make them clickable in their entirety.
This can confuse WP users who are emailed a URL to reset their passwords, because clicking does not lead to a valid URL. See this wp-hackers thread:
http://groups.google.com/group/wp-hackers/t/155a6011e3a835a2
Core could fix this for several (most? all?) problematic email clients by simply enclosing the URL in angle brackets (the less than and greater than signs) before sending it.
I attach a tentative patch to get us going.
See also a couple of mentions/recommendations of the angle brackets as delimiters for URIs in plain text:
http://www.w3.org/Addressing/URL/5.1_Wrappers.html
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3986.txt (go to Appendix C)
Attachments (1)
Change History (5)
- Component changed from General to Mail
- Keywords dev-feedback removed
- Milestone changed from Awaiting Review to 3.1
Agreed with westi on this (as said over wp-hackers). I imagine there are other instances where < > would be useful, but this is a start.
- Resolution set to fixed
- Status changed from new to closed

Encloses URL for password reset in angle brackets