periods at end of URLs

[Sloan, Bernie]

Interesting........mine worked fine when I clicked on all
three examples.

Bernie Sloan
Senior Library Information Systems Consultant
University of Illinois Office for Planning & Budgeting
338 Henry Administration Building
506 S. Wright Street
Urbana, IL  61801
Phone: (217) 333-4895  
Fax: (217) 333-6355
Email: bernies at uillinois.edu

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Carole Leita [SMTP:leita at netcom.com]
> Sent:	Thursday, March 19, 1998 1:44 PM
> To:	Multiple recipients of list
> Subject:	periods at end of URLs
> 
> I have a request for writers including URLs in their email messages:
> Please don't end URLs with a period.
> 
> Many email readers (e.g., mine ;) allow the reader to click directly
> on a
> URL in an email message, and to view that web page on the browser.
> However, this doesn't work if the URL has a period at the end. It can
> have
> quotes or parentheses or blank spaces, just not periods. For example,
> "http://www.scpl.org/publicnt.html" would work fine, as would
> http://www.scpl.org/publicnt.html .  In contrast, clicking on
> http://www.scpl.org/publicnt.html. results in a NOT FOUND message in
> the
> browser.
> 
> Many thanks,
> - Carole
> ______________________________
> Carole Leita, leita at netcom.com
> 
> (Kind of a 'save the time of the reader' issue ;)