- From: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
- Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2002 13:47:03 -0800
- To: Michael Mealling <michael@neonym.net>
- Cc: uri@w3.org
On Thursday, April 4, 2002, at 01:19 PM, Michael Mealling wrote: > > If it identified just the actual mailbox then you shouldn't be able to > specify things like a Subject since mailboxes don't have Subjects. > Maybe the word 'action' is wrong. Hmm... the 'message' itself? > I dunno how to say it exactly. But 'mailbox' isn't right either.... mailto allows you to specify a subject, body, etc. in the query component, which is defined by 2396 as: "...a string of information to be interpreted by the resource." Considering other uses of queries, this seems to fit in nicely. http://www.example.com/foo?bar=baz can identify the resource foo with the argument bar=baz, and it also affects the message sent when dereferencing the URI. mailto:bob@example.net?Subject=Make+Money+Now can cause a message with that subject to be sent when dereferenced, but it can also be used to locate a message in the mailbox. sms uses a parameter to specify a body, which seems broken. This is one of the things I'll be commenting about. -- Mark Nottingham http://www.mnot.net/
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