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Forum thread post email notification has broken link


Daniel Roesen
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Daniel Roesen
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Hi,

when a forum user subscribes to thread updates by email, that notification email is sent as MIME content-type "multipart/alternative" with a plaintext and a HTML version. The HTML version is "OK" (if you think HTML for email bodies is OK...), but the plaintext version that contains only a link to the new post in the thread has a broken link:

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The problem is that the parameter separator "&" is being HTML-encoded as "&" which is just plain wrong for an URL. Removing the bogus "amp;" makes the link work correctly.

I guess you cannot directly do something about it but have to report it to the forum software company Invision.

Best regards,
Daniel

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