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Re: E-mail hyperlinks on LUGNET
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lugnet.faq
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Fri, 25 Jan 2002 10:10:07 GMT
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"Zhengrong Zang" <mikezang@iname.com> wrote in message
news:GqGxDv.JFy@lugnet.com...
> You can find all Email links are using as below:
> mailto:"Jude Beaudin" <shiningblade@rogers.com>?Subject=Re: E-mail
> hyperlinks on LUGNET
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> It seems that IE and Outlook don't support "?Subject=", if you open • message
> in Netscape, then those Email links are no any problems, take a try.
The ?Subject isn't the problem, it's the format of the link. AFAIK a mailto:
URL should be just the email address, plus a querystring if required. No
spaces, no quotes, and definitely no < > chars. The above link should really
be
mailto:shiningblade@rogers.com?Subject=Re%3A%20E%2Dmail
(for some strange reason Outlook doesn't unencode a + back to a space, hence
the use of %20)
However, this also seems to work:
mailto:%22Jude%20Beaudin%22%20%3Cshiningblade%40rogers%2Ecom%3E%3FSubject%3D
Re%3A%20E%2Dmail
so the full name can be included.
The W3C specs for URLs show that you can only have alphanumeric chars and
the symbols . / - & = ? , everything else must be encoded as it's hex value
with a preceding %. Netscape seems to be able to handle the invalid URL, but
in this case Outlook appears to be a bit too strict in it's handling. The
only solution to this would be to change the programming on the Lugnet site
to encode the mailto: links according to the W3C specs.
Dan
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| (...) So what you're asserting is that LUGNET isn't in conformance to spec but that it works for some mailers because their implementation isn't as spec-picky? The thought of an MS product being better at spec conformance is shocking. Until you (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jan-02, to lugnet.faq, lugnet.admin.general)
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| You can find all Email links are using as below: mailto:"Jude Beaudin" <shiningblade@rogers...ubject=Re: E-mail hyperlinks on LUGNET It seems that IE and Outlook don't support "?Subject=", if you open message in Netscape, then those Email links are (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jan-02, to lugnet.faq)
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