periods at end of URLs

[Bill Jenkins]

>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

>In contrast, clicking on http://www.scpl.org/publicnt.html. results in a
>NOT FOUND message in the browser.

This is a flaw in the email program that you use. For example, Eudora does
not have this problem as it realizes that if a period is at the end of a
URL it is most likely punctuation, so it does not pass it onto the browser.
It would probably be a good idea to update to a more recent version of your
email program or contact the vendor.

BillJ

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Bill Jenkins     wcj1 at cornell.edu
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