- From: Al Gilman <asgilman@iamdigex.net>
- Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 19:44:12 -0400
- To: "Roy T. Fielding" <fielding@eBuilt.com>, Stephen Cranefield <SCranefield@infoscience.otago.ac.nz>
- Cc: "'uri@w3.org'" <uri@w3.org>
At 06:13 PM 2001-09-27 , Roy T. Fielding wrote: > >To correct an earlier statement, both the mailto and telnet schemes, when >used in Web browsers, are operated upon using GET semantics -- the resulting >retrieval is a form for composing a mail message or an application with an >open session. You may wish to look on it that way. But that is an implementation detail in the coding of the User Agent. The intrinsic transaction that goes with the mailto: URI is the PUT to the mailbox. The rest is at the election of the implementer. Get Me My Mailtool is inserted in the transaction stream by the User Agent shell you call the browser. It is not implied by the URI itself. The URI is not 'retrieved' until the composition session is done and the message is in the hands of a competent MTA. Al
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