[MlMt] http:// → http:??

[Bill Cole]

On 2025-02-07 at 19:18:56 UTC-0500 (Fri, 07 Feb 2025 18:18:56 -0600)
Quinn Comendant via mailmate <mailmate at lists.freron.com>
is rumored to have said:

> Here's a link that will compose an email with this phenomenon:
>
> ```
> mailto:?to=&body=Join%20the%20trip%20here%20https%3A%2F%2Fair.tl%2Ffoo%3Fs%3D2%26unique_share_id%3Dbar&subject=Trip%20to%20Timbuktu
> ```
>
> Paste that into a browser location bar and hit enter, and it'll launch 
> MailMate with a new message containing `https:??` instead of 
> `https://`.

I did that in the current versions of Safari, iCab, Chrome, Firefox, and 
used "open" in a shell session to open the URL and all yielded a message 
with slashes, not question marks.

Seems like this is something specific to your system. My testing was on 
a 2018 Intel MBP with Sonoma. MM 6222


> Regards,
> Quinn
>
>
> On 6 Feb 2025, at 15:51, Quinn Comendant wrote:
>
>> I had this weird experience in MailMate build 6222 yesterday: I used 
>> the "Share this trip" from Airbnb to compose a new email in MailMate, 
>> and the URL displayed question marks instead of back slashes, i.e., 
>> `http:??` instead of `http://`. To be clear: the URL did contain 
>> slashes, but they were displayed incorrectly. [Here's a screen 
>> recording](https://send.strangecode.com/f/screen-recording-2025-02-05-at-23-30-36.mp4) 
>> showing this anomaly.
>>
>> Not a big deal, just thought Benny would like to see this.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Quinn_______________________________________________
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