Yahoo Mail includes trailing angle brackets in links

[Kenneth Porter]

If you email your users links and wrap the links in angle brackets, beware
users using Yahoo Mail. It includes the trailing angle bracket in the link,
preventing it from working. (This was happening with my site's "forgotten
password" system, so people couldn't reset their passwords.)

As a workaround, you can have your code check for a trailing ">" and strip
it before further processing. I submitted a bug report using Yahoo's
generic bug form, but couldn't find any Mail-specific place to report bugs
with their service.

[R. Rajesh Jeba Anbiah]

|OT| Re: Yahoo Mail includes trailing angle brackets in links

Kenneth Porter wrote:

If you email your users links and wrap the links in angle brackets, beware
users using Yahoo Mail. It includes the trailing angle bracket in the link,
preventing it from working. (This was happening with my site's "forgotten
password" system, so people couldn't reset their passwords.)
>
As a workaround, you can have your code check for a trailing ">" and strip
it before further processing. I submitted a bug report using Yahoo's
generic bug form, but couldn't find any Mail-specific place to report bugs
with their service.

http://docs.yahoo.com/info/support/contacts/bugs.html

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[Kenneth Porter]

Re: |OT| Re: Yahoo Mail includes trailing angle brackets in links

"R. Rajesh Jeba Anbiah" <ng4rrjanbiah@r ediffmail.comwr ote in
news:1155460268 .004619.301850@ p79g2000cwp.goo glegroups.com:

>As a workaround, you can have your code check for a trailing ">" and
>strip it before further processing. I submitted a bug report using
>Yahoo's generic bug form, but couldn't find any Mail-specific place
>to report bugs with their service.

>
http://docs.yahoo.com/info/support/contacts/bugs.html

Yep, that looks like the "generic" form I used to report it.