Re: Gnatsweb v4.00 - Send email to interested parties

[Edward E. Jaffe]

Edward E. Jaffe wrote:

> We just installed GNATS v4.1.0 and Gnatsweb v4.00. The only real 
> problem we've found so far is when we try to use the "send email to 
> interested parties" link when viewing a problem report. The imbedded 
> URL looks similar to this:
>
> http%3A%2F%2Fpsilinux.phx%2Fcgi-bin%2Fgnatsweb.pl%3Fcmd%3Dview%2520audit-trail%26database%3Ddefault%26pr%3D12
>
> which isn't presented as a valid link by any of the e-mail programs we 
> use here.
>
> I'm seeing this problem using Firefox 1.07 and Thunderbird 1.07 on my 
> desktop.
>
> Any ideas how this can be corrected? A "tweak" to gnatsweb.pl?


We ended up modifying gnatsweb.pl to solve this issue. In subroutine 
get_mailto_link, we changed:

my $body    = $q->escape(get_viewpr_url($pr));

to simply:

my $body    = get_viewpr_url($pr);

Works great!

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