How to put a webloc URL into a Eudora msg?

[AES]

I collect URLs that are of interest to me by dragging their links from
the Safari toolbar address field either onto my desktop or directly into
appropriate folders. That way, I can accumulate the URLs associated
with a given topic into a folder along with other files and related
material on that topic.

Later on I often want to drag some of those URLs into the body of a
newsgroup msg or a Eudora msg as clickable links (or at least as text
strings), so that the msg recipients can access them also. This works
fine with MT-NewsWatcher -- but attempting to drag a webloc into the
body of a Eudora msg will only add it to the msg as an attachment (at
least, so far as I can tell).

Is there a quick and easy way to get the URL from a webloc into the body
of a Eudora msg? (other than actually opening that web page and copying
the full URL into the message)

Or, an alternative and equally simple way of capturing individual URLs
into HD folders, other than in webloc format?

[And as a trivial aside, has anyone else noticed that if you drag and
drop the text of the URL in the fashion described above, you get a
webloc whose filename is the full (and sometimes lengthy!) text of the
URL itself; whereas if you drag and drop the little icon at the left end
of the address field you get a webloc -- the same webloc -- whose file
name is the title of the web page that URL points to. And in either
case, dragging the webloc into MTNW creates an identical clickable URL.]

[Fred McKenzie]

In article <siegman-8A161C...@news.stanford.edu>,
AES <sie...@stanford.edu> wrote:

> [And as a trivial aside, has anyone else noticed that if you drag and
> drop the text of the URL in the fashion described above, you get a
> webloc whose filename is the full (and sometimes lengthy!) text of the
> URL itself; whereas if you drag and drop the little icon at the left end
> of the address field you get a webloc -- the same webloc -- whose file
> name is the title of the web page that URL points to.

AES-

That is neat. I'd never heard of a webloc before.

Try changing the webloc's suffix from .webloc to .TXT. Then see what
happens if you drag it into Eudora.

I just tried it with a sample URL here. The .webloc version dragged OK,
but the .TXT version did not. The text file doesn't drag into MTNW, but
it was possible open it in TextEdit and drag the URL over.

Fred

[Warren Oates]

In article <siegman-8A161C...@news.stanford.edu>,
AES <sie...@stanford.edu> wrote:

> Is there a quick and easy way to get the URL from a webloc into the body
> of a Eudora msg? (other than actually opening that web page and copying
> the full URL into the message)
>

A webloc is a plist, that all Mac apps (at least, all the browsers and
MTNW) seem to be able to "decode."

Looks like this (the DOCTYPE declaration should all be one line):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN"
"http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>URL</key>
<string>http://www.google.com/</string>
</dict>
</plist>

> Or, an alternative and equally simple way of capturing individual URLs
> into HD folders, other than in webloc format?

Copy and paste as text into a Stickie, or just bookmark it into a nicely
named folder.
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