- From: Paul Hoffman <phoffman@imc.org>
- Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 10:43:47 -0700
- To: Larry Masinter <LMM@acm.org>
- Cc: uri@w3.org
At 10:24 AM -0700 6/20/05, Larry Masinter wrote: >(URIC-encoded) 'addr-spec' is reliable >(URIC-encoded) 'mailbox-list' MAY be used, but is often > badly implemented This would lead to massive lack of interoperability of software that creates or resolves mailto: URIs. Assume that Thunderbird implements reading the new form, so Thunderbird users start to create mailtos for themselves using it on their web pages. A non-Thunderbird-user double-clicks on the link, their MUA launches, and malformed crap appears in the To: field of the new message. I propose that breaking current MUAs is not a good idea in order to allow comments and lists of names in URIs. Even creating a new scheme would probably cause confusion, particularly if you name it something like 'mailto-new'. I have heard no demand for this new feature, even though it has been obvious for over a decade. >What do you mean by 'insecurely'? It would probably be easy to create "new-format" mailto: strings that would cause current MUAs to crash in interesting fashions. --Paul Hoffman, Director --Internet Mail Consortium
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