Strip HTML weirdness

[Julian Field]

That is very strange. MailScanner, when stripping HTML to plain text,
doesn't surround the links in any punctuation at all, it just puts them in
with a space round them so they don't get mingled with the surrounding text.

Here's a little example of what is left after processing a short test message:

mime-boundary string here
Content-type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

This is an HTML message with a http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/ link
in it and a link on a line of its own.
http://soton.ac.uk/ Link number 2
And it also has a very long link in it like
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaassssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssdddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddfvfffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff.jpg
in it.

mime-boundary string here

As you see, there are no "<>" characters and no truncation.

At 15:22 01/10/2003, you wrote:
>Julian Field wrote:
> > Can you make sure they are not very long URLs that are being split
> > into multiple lines by Outlook?
>
>No, thats not the case, heres a short extract from the particular mail
>thats generated complaints (lots of my users are on this list).  A couple
>of curious things 1) The urls are truncated, 2) The URLS are surrounded by
><>.  The message was tagged as spam and converted to an attachment, but
>was low scoring spam - which is not set to be stripped - although it looks
>from the logs that it also triggered one of the dangerous html rules
>(which are set to strip content).  I think the original is online here
>http://www.bmra.org.uk/mrbusiness/index.asp (although the links are
>relative in the source of that).
>
>MESSAGE EXTRACT FOLLOWS....
>
>  <http://www.bmra.org.u>
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Julian Field
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