HTML coding and character set question

[hoinvip]

Not sure if this is the right place to ask but I'm trying to understand why HTML emails are formatted seemingly "differently"...

I've received an email with this html text in it..:

http://l.domainname.com/l/r/03pHQ2YK0KXDF0OjVK

<

http://www.domainname.com/cms/global/images/email_images/uk_i/=

rc/button.gif> =

<a h=ref=3D

http://domainname.com/?D>

</a>

And I am trying to work out what this "h=ref=3Dhttp" bit is all about... it looks almost as though it's corrupted but the email still appears correctly....

Are there any HTML gurus out there that know why this happens?

Thanks in advance

HoinviP

http://www.global-net.co.uk

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

All I can tell you is that "3D" is the "URL-safe" ("escaped") code for "=".

Hope this helps,
Dan


[tt]D'ya think I got where I am today because I dress like Peter Pan here?[/tt]

 

[BabyJeffy]

Posting your code within [code]... [/code] tags will ensure we see all the characters (it appears some of them have been parsed by the local forum code and as such are un-readable to us).

Cheers,
Jeff

 

[hoinvip]

Hi guys,

I'm hoping that the code is more or less irrelevant to this issue - I just pasted one example of a received mail.

However, here's the original:

[URL unfurl="true"]http://l.domainname.com/l/r/03pHQ2YK0KXDF0OjVK[/URL]

<[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.domainname.com/cms/global/images/email_images/uk_i/=[/URL] rc/button.gif>  =

<a h=ref=3D[URL unfurl="true"]http://domainname.com/?D>[/URL] </a>

I am more interested in the substitution of "standard" characters and would like to understand more about this though.

Can you please explain what a "URL-safe" / "escaped" code is? And also, if you can suggest where I can learn more about it?

Thanks in advance,



HoinviP

http://www.global-net.co.uk