Very long hyperlink broken in Outlook 2007

[Guest]

When I send an HTML email with a very long hyperlink in it (over 1000
characters) Outlook 2007 inserts a space into it and breaks it, like this:

<a href="http://blahblah/blah/very/long/link&atotalof=947&characters=here
andmore&stuffhere" />

Of course, this breaks the link. Outlook 2003 and Thunderbird both handle
the link without problems. Is this a bug or documented behaviour? Is there
any way I can work around it (other than shortening the URL, of course)?

 

[BillR [MVP]]

there's a way to work around it. Just type text or whatever you like (it
might be "download here" or something similar. Then select the text, right
click, select Hyperlink and type the address into the address box and click
OK.
This won't work with plain text messages.

 

[Guest]

Sorry, I've actually messed up my question.

The email wasn't sent from Outlook 2007. It was sent from .NET code using
the .NET Framework mail classes, so there were definitely no spaces inserted
there. This email, when READ in Outlook 2007 has a space inserted in the
hyperlink. The same email, when read in Outlook 2003 or Thunderbird works
fine (no spaces, hyperlink takes the user to the desired page).

 

[BillR [MVP]]

Probably best to check in an Outlook programming group then.

 

[Guest]

Programming? But I'm not trying to program Outlook. I have no control over
the client that reads the email. I just want to see if there's something I
can do when sending the email to work around this or find out if it's a bug
that's going to be fixed, etc.

 

[F. H. Muffman]

Programming? But I'm not trying to program Outlook. I have no control over
the client that reads the email. I just want to see if there's something I
can do when sending the email to work around this or find out if it's a
bug
that's going to be fixed, etc.

Shorten the URL? Sorry, but over 1000 characters is pretty extreme.
Use snipurl.com to make it shorter?

FWIW, I dropped in a 1024 character URL in gmail and sent it to someone I
know was running Outlook 2007 against an Exchange server and to myself in
hotmail gathered through OL2k7 and it didn't line break when received on
either of our systems. In other words, I can't reproduce the problem.

Might that Outlook 2007 box be running something else that would be breaking
the url, like, say an A/V software that might be monitoring email?