- From: James Berriman <james@frutiger.staffs.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 10 Apr 1997 01:10:43 +0100
- To: WWW HTML List <www-html@w3.org>
I find mailto: forms genuinely useful. The real problem with mailto: forms is that there is no default METHOD (or indeed any METHOD) currently defined for the mailto: ACTION. GET and POST are part of the HTTP spec, which is not intended to cover mail transport. Netscape 2.0 onward and MSIE 3.01 on the mac both behave in the same way with a mailto: form (I don't have direct experience with other clients). If you specify a METHOD=POST, then the form-encoded data is placed in the first line of the message body. If you don't specify a METHOD the default is to open a blank message (not much use). The potential exists to define METHODs relevant to mail transport (and to codify the existing implementation of POST). So for those of us who do want to implement mailto: forms, where is the appropriate forum to discuss this? ( :-]) James
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