On Mon, 2002-09-23 at 22:01, Scott McNay wrote:
> 
> JA> Some mail clients and (as you work with PHP, you may know this)
> JA> programming languages use the ? as a starting separator for arguments.
> JA> If you were to double click the same link in Outlook/Outlook Explorer,
> JA> it'd put "subscribe" in the body, if that said ?subject=subscribe it'd
> JA> put it in the subject.
> 
> 
> My ISP's SMTP server said this:
> 
> 550 5.1.2 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=subscribe>... Host unknown (Name
> server: local.nu?body=subscribe: host not found)

As expected as .nu?body=subscribe is an unknown TLD, and probably breaks
RFCs in some way too ;) Anything  after the ? is supposed to be placed
in relation to the variable before it, for example body=subject would
put subject in the body, subject=subscribe would put subscribe in the
subject.

-- 
Jonathan Angliss
([EMAIL PROTECTED])


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