S
Scott
re: Entourage 04
Following an order from an online merchant, I received a confirmation
email with my order information, including a link to check its status.
The email does not contain HTML, but it does have several links, one
being the link to the order status page in the format
http://
i.e., it's not enclosed in angle brackets.
I cannot click on the link--my browser isn't launched if I do. If I cut
and paste the link into the browser, the page is invalid (according to
the remote server, not Safari). However, if I View > Source, the link
changes slightly.
If I preview the message or open it in a separate window, the link ends
as follows:
/stat?[site name]?????????
where [site name] is the store name. The ending set of question marks
are (in the email) a series of Asian characters (Chinese or Japanese, I
don't know. I have my newsreader set to Western encoding, so they
couldn't be pasted in).
However, if I View > Source, it changes to this:
/stat?[site name]+[order number]+4480ce02eaab6cfdc7bd
[order number] is, of course, my order number. This link works just fine.
Why would Entourage change the characters?
Following an order from an online merchant, I received a confirmation
email with my order information, including a link to check its status.
The email does not contain HTML, but it does have several links, one
being the link to the order status page in the format
http://
i.e., it's not enclosed in angle brackets.
I cannot click on the link--my browser isn't launched if I do. If I cut
and paste the link into the browser, the page is invalid (according to
the remote server, not Safari). However, if I View > Source, the link
changes slightly.
If I preview the message or open it in a separate window, the link ends
as follows:
/stat?[site name]?????????
where [site name] is the store name. The ending set of question marks
are (in the email) a series of Asian characters (Chinese or Japanese, I
don't know. I have my newsreader set to Western encoding, so they
couldn't be pasted in).
However, if I View > Source, it changes to this:
/stat?[site name]+[order number]+4480ce02eaab6cfdc7bd
[order number] is, of course, my order number. This link works just fine.
Why would Entourage change the characters?