How do I stop Gmail from stripping the values out of URLs?

Question

I recently learned that webmail clients like Gmail will do alterations on HTML emails, for example adding target=\"_blank\" to tags.

Answer 1

This may not be the perfect answer, but if your application allows for it, I have used URL shorteners a number of times.

http://goo.gl/ is my preferred because the API is super easy to implement and google is very fast. I have a function in a class and I just run my url through it and send the return wherever I need it to be.