missing CR characters

• From: Dietmar P. Schindler <schd@mra.man.de>
• Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1999 15:25:51 +0100
• To: www4mail-comments@w3.org
• Message-id: <199911171425.PAA20046@aras.mra.man.de>

Dear Clement,

I have a problem. There are web pages which contain single CR characters
as line delimiters (e. g. http://www.fujifilm2000.de/f6/adress.html).
When I request such a page with "tsource", in the response the CRs are
all gone, giving one very long line. I found that our mail server drops
the CRs. This causes trouble especially when the page contains Java
script with "//" comments, because the comment extends to the end of the
long line, hiding part of the script.
Of course I could use the uuencode option and would get the documents
uncorrupted, but I would rather not enlarge the response that much. An
encoding as quoted-printable would add much less overhead in this case.
Is there a way I can request quoted-printable encoding with www4mail?
If not, then it would be great if you could implement such an option in
some future release.

Best regards,
Dietmar

Received on Wednesday, 17 November 1999 09:26:15 UTC