Re: "Mailto" Command
James Berriman (james@frutiger.staffs.ac.uk)
Thu, 10 Apr 1997 01:10:43 +0100
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Date: Thu, 10 Apr 1997 01:10:43 +0100
To: WWW HTML List <www-html@w3.org>
From: james@frutiger.staffs.ac.uk (James Berriman)
Subject: Re: "Mailto" Command
I find mailto: forms genuinely useful. The real problem with mailto: forms=
is that there is no default METHOD (or indeed any METHOD) currently defined=
for the mailto: ACTION.
GET and POST are part of the HTTP spec, which is not intended to cover mail =
transport.
Netscape 2.0 onward and MSIE 3.01 on the mac both behave in the same way=
with a mailto: form (I don't have direct experience with other clients). If=
you specify a METHOD=3DPOST, then the form-encoded data is placed in the=
first line of the message body. If you don't specify a METHOD the default=
is to open a blank message (not much use).
The potential exists to define METHODs relevant to mail transport (and to=
codify the existing implementation of POST). So for those of us who do want=
to implement mailto: forms, where is the appropriate forum to discuss this?
( :-]) James