- From: Roy T. Fielding <fielding@avron.ICS.UCI.EDU>
- Date: Wed, 11 Jan 1995 17:07:22 -0800
- To: uri@bunyip.com
Larry writes:
> One requirement for the capabilities of the 'mailserver' URL scheme is
> that it be at least as capable as the "message/external-body
> access-type=mail-server" outlined in RFC1521.TXT. Specifying subject
> is important, but (at least by this criteria) header fields other than
> subject isn't. Being able to supply multi-line data is important.
I'll agree with Larry here. Although I understand the desire to be
able to identify mail server resources, allowing the URL to specify
headers other than To and Subject would be a mistake. The other headers
should be the purview of the mail-sending client, and the user should
be able to edit the message before it is sent. Thus,
<URL:mailserver:addressee/subject_text/body_line1/body_line2/...>
is all that is needed to cover retrieval operations. Messages that
require input, such as a Your Name Here, can simply include that phrase
and ask that the user edit it before sending the message. There are times
when a little less automation is a good thing.
......Roy Fielding ICS Grad Student, University of California, Irvine USA
<fielding@ics.uci.edu>
<URL:http://www.ics.uci.edu/dir/grad/Software/fielding>
Received on Wednesday, 11 January 1995 20:12:22 UTC