Re: missing part of Subject from & on

• From: Onime Clement <onime@ictp.trieste.it>
• Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2000 11:48:51 +0200 (MET DST)
• To: "Dietmar P. Schindler" <schd@mra.man.de>
• cc: www4mail-comments@w3.org
• Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.96.1000808113810.7682O-100000@sv7>

see below!
On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, Dietmar P. Schindler wrote:

> http://www.amnesty-caribbean.org/Petitionstext.html contains a form that
> results in
> 
> POST http://amnesty-caribbean.org/cgi-local/textout.pl/petition/format.txt&/petition/result.txt
> 
> www4mail responds correctly, except that the subject says
> 
> Subject: Requested (URL - http://amnesty-caribbean.org/cgi-local/textout.pl/petition/format.txt)
> The part from the & on has been removed.
>

Yes, www4mail does not include the data section of URLs on the subject
lines, in order to keep the length small and also to hide sensitive data!
A sacn of the subject of your e-mail should not reveal submitted data.

 
> In the Details for Current Page the & has been substituted by ?.
Also, it would appear that the & sign is inter-changeable with the ? sign.
When a ? sign is missing www4mail will convert the first & sign to a ?


Thanks
Clement

Received on Tuesday, 8 August 2000 05:48:17 UTC