gnatsweb/311: Mailto URLs don't work properly in MSIE

gnatsweb/311: Mailto URLs don't work properly in MSIE

[yngve.svendsen]

>Number:         311
>Category:       gnatsweb
>Synopsis:       Mailto URLs don't work properly in MSIE
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    unassigned
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Dec 12 09:05:15 -0500 2001
>Originator:     Yngve Svendsen
>Release:        
>Organization:

>Environment:

>Description:
The "send mail to interested parties" mailto link does not work quite as it should in MSIE. The View PR URL that is supposed to appear in the body of the message created by the mailto link lacks the option part, i.e. everything after "gnatsweb.pl".
>How-To-Repeat:

>Fix:
Essentially encode the body value of the mailt URL twice for MSIE. Will require some fiddling with the encoding of & and ?, though.
>Unformatted:
 

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Re: gnatsweb/311: Mailto URLs don't work properly in MSIE

[Michael Richardson]

MSIE can not expand + into a space in a mailto.
%20 works however for all browsers. 
I do not know if this is the problem as the bug report is too terse.


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Re: gnatsweb/311: Mailto URLs don't work properly in MSIE

[Yngve Svendsen]

At 13:30 12.12.01 -0700, Michael Richardson wrote:

>MSIE can not expand + into a space in a mailto.
>%20 works however for all browsers.
>I do not know if this is the problem as the bug report is too terse.

There problem here is the 'Body' part of the URL. MSIE decodes the value of 
this parameter before sending it to the mailer. Thus, we actually need to 
decode this part of the mailto URL twice, once for the browser and once for 
the mailer, when the browser is MSIE. There are also several other small 
inconsistencies between browsers, so it is going to be a bit of a puzzle to 
make it work across most browsers. Basically, advanced mailto URLs 
constitute a very complicated scientific subject.

- Yngve


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