web server/page mis-configuration?

[Fat Tone]

If an Apache web server is hosting a web page containing a mailto to e.g. abc123@xyz.ac.uk and the browser only gets abc123.ac.uk, what vital bit of configuration is missing? This error occurs for the displayed text and for the href.

TIA

T.

[Fat Tone]

Anyone? I have Googled but can't find the answer.

[Dilitante1]

tho i dont know that much it does sound like a tag issue in the html....

[Fat Tone]

This was a classic 'DOH!!!' moment.

The page in question was generated by a Perl script...you can probably guess the rest

[Kurt]

I'm not sure what the correct answer is but is makes me think there's a missing tag (compatibility prpoblem) to display the @-sign (like "/n" or sth ?).

You could try to replace the @-sign with its numeric equivalent (ISO-8859-1): &#64

(it's actually "64" but "&" is for the browser and "#" to indicate it's a number).

[Fat Tone]

Perl was looking for an array called @xyz to display, not finding it and moving on.
To make it not try to interpret the @ I just escaped it with \.

[Kurt]

right...me slash was the wrong sense...

[Fat Tone]

we all do it!