- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 10:00:11 +0000 (UTC)
On Tue, 2 Dec 2008, Michael A. Puls II wrote: > > Consider this form: > > <form action="mailto:?subject=1+2" action="POST"> > <input type="submit" value="Compose"> > </form> > > (which contains a valid mailto URI meaning that "1+2" should be the > value of the subject) > > Imagine in your browser that it supports setting the default mailto URI > handler to Gmail (a web-based client that uses *http* URIs). > > If you submit that form, you'd get > <https://mail.google.com/mail/?compose=1&view=cm&fs=1&su=1+2> Why? How so? Are you referring to the registerProtocolHandler() API, to mailto: form submission, or to something else? Could you lay out the steps that take us from a form submission using a mailto: URL to an HTTPS request to GMail? -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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