# How do you deal with links that have \< or \> in them?

**URL:** <https://talk.commonmark.org/t/how-do-you-deal-with-links-that-have-or-in-them/3900>\
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**Created:** [July 1, 2021, 1:28am UTC](https://talk.commonmark.org/t/how-do-you-deal-with-links-that-have-or-in-them/3900 "2021-07-01T01:28:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![nadashin](https://cdn.commonmark.org/user_avatar/talk.commonmark.org/nadashin/32/2273_2.png) [@nadashin](https://talk.commonmark.org/u/nadashin)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2021, 1:28am UTC](https://talk.commonmark.org/t/how-do-you-deal-with-links-that-have-or-in-them/3900/1 "2021-07-01T01:28:39Z")

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`<https://lists.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/email-test-drive/<8433652D-8153-4DFC-B2CE-A73B78969083%40nixnetmail.com>>`

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**Author:** ![mity](https://cdn.commonmark.org/user_avatar/talk.commonmark.org/mity/32/1040_2.png) [@mity](https://talk.commonmark.org/u/mity)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2021, 1:22pm UTC](https://talk.commonmark.org/t/how-do-you-deal-with-links-that-have-or-in-them/3900/2 "2021-07-01T13:22:58Z")

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It should produce this:

```auto
<p>&lt;https://lists.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/email-test-drive/&lt;8433652D-8153-4DFC-B2CE-A73B78969083%40nixnetmail.com&gt;&gt;</p>

```

because it’s not a valid autolink. The absolute URI cannot contain `<` and `>`. If you need to include those characters in the autolink, they have to be percent-encoded. I.e. the following is a valid autolink:

```markdown
<https://lists.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/email-test-drive/%3C8433652D-8153-4DFC-B2CE-A73B78969083%40nixnetmail.com%3E>

```

Refer to the specification of [autolinks](https://spec.commonmark.org/0.30/#autolinks) for more info.