[Tickets #3085] NEW: Improperly formatted <a href> tags in html messages

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Ticket URL: http://bugs.horde.org/ticket/?id=3085
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 Ticket             | 3085
 Created By         | mp at xmission.com
 Summary            | Improperly formatted <a href> tags in html messages
 Queue              | IMP
 Version            | 4.0.3
 State              | Unconfirmed
 Priority           | 2. Medium
 Type               | Bug
 Owners             | 
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mp at xmission.com (2005-12-02 14:40) wrote:

When a user receives a HTML message which has an <a href=> tag in which the
URL is not properly surrounded by quotes, Horde encodes the closing '>' as
'%3E' which causes the opening <a> tag not to be closed. This prevents the
linked text from showing up in the body of the message because the resulting
HTML is invalid.

For example, a link in a body of a message such as:
<a href="http://www.horde.org>Horde</a>
works just fine.

However, the following HTML will not display the linked text in the IMP
message view:
<a href=http://www.horde>Horde</a>

Now, I know that this is the result of invalid HTML to begin with, but this
does work on at least some other clients, (Thunderbird for instance) as well
as working on IMP 3.2.8. Unfortunetly, of course, some MUAs are still broken
and this causes real headaches for users trying to read HTML messages sent
by those clients.