-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday, November 28, 2002, Nathan J. Yoder wrote...
> I think I've found a minor, but annoying mailto: bug. With an HTML > link that uses the mailto: and a subject line (i.e. <a > href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=hello how are you) The Bat! may > not properly insert the subject line into the message composing > window. If the subject line contains spaces (as above) then The Bat! > will only include the first word of the subject in the subject line > (i.e. "hello" instead of "hello how are you"). The only way to get > around this is substitute the HTML escape character %20 (20 hex is a > space) in place of spaces. Unfortunately most websites don't do > this, and thus you get a truncated subject line when you click on a > mailto: link. I think that is correct behavior per RFCs. Special characters such as spaces, &, and such are supposed to converted to the hex version. http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2368.html It specifically says: ,----- [ 5. Encoding ] | RFC 1738 requires that many characters in URLs be encoded. This | affects the mailto scheme for some common characters that might | appear in addresses, headers or message contents. One such character | is space (" ", ASCII hex 20). Note the examples above that use "%20" | for space in the message body. Also note that line breaks in the | body of a message MUST be encoded with "%0D%0A". `----- So TB! is only behaving as per the rules. You'll find it is the other mail clients that are misbehaving. And the author of the link also made the mistake too. - -- Jonathan Angliss ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: Fingerprint: 676A 1701 665B E343 E393 B8D2 2B83 E814 F8FD 1F73 iQA/AwUBPeYqQCuD6BT4/R9zEQI2igCgqIMIgKtyMEup2XWT7jqu1EqyADkAnA2o 7x6RazHdcTLsRkG1Hp1Zsj/T =TPC/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.61 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
