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In lugnet.faq, Daniel Crichton writes:
> "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
> >
> > 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
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 realise that this particular conformance sort of breaks
other (non MS) things, in which case it's not all that surprising.
(FUT admin.general, I think most of the conversation has migrated there)
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| "Zhengrong Zang" <mikezang@iname.com> wrote in message news:GqGxDv.JFy@lugnet.com... (...) message (...) 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 (...) (22 years ago, 25-Jan-02, to lugnet.faq)
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