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From: Michael Schierl <schierlm-usenet@gmx.de>
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Triteno <tri10o@poland.com> wrote:

>Michael Schierl says:
>>>mailto (colon) (slash) (slash) triteno (at) poland (dot) com
>> There are no slashes in mailto:links.
>
>sure?


from rfc2368:

| 2. Syntax of a mailto URL
| 
|    Following the syntax conventions of RFC 1738 [RFC1738], a "mailto"
|    URL has the form:
|
|      mailtoURL  =  "mailto:" [ to ] [ headers ]
|      to         =  #mailbox
|      headers    =  "?" header *( "&" header )
|      header     =  hname "=" hvalue
|      hname      =  *urlc
|      hvalue     =  *urlc
| 
|    "#mailbox" is as specified in RFC 822 [RFC822]. This means that it
|    consists of zero or more comma-separated mail addresses, possibly
|    including "phrase" and "comment" components. Note that all URL
|    reserved characters in "to" must be encoded: in particular,
|    parentheses, commas, and the percent sign ("%"), which commonly occur
|    in the "mailbox" syntax.
| 
|    "hname" and "hvalue" are encodings of an RFC 822 header name and
|    value, respectively. As with "to", all URL reserved characters must
|    be encoded.

[...]

| 6. Examples
| 
|    URLs for an ordinary individual mailing address:
|      <mailto:chris@example.com>
| 
|    A URL for a mail response system that requires the name of the file
|    in the subject:
|      <mailto:infobot@example.com?subject=current-issue>
| 
|    A mail response system that requires a "send" request in the body:
|      <mailto:infobot@example.com?body=send%20current-issue>
| 
|    A similar URL could have two lines with different "send" requests (in
|    this case, "send current-issue" and, on the next line, "send index".)
|      <mailto:infobot@example.com?body=send%20current-
|      issue%0D%0Asend%20index>

>currently, only IE is known for not accepting mailto://
>however links, and few more browsers do understand and interpret it
>correctly

browsers *should* accept as much nonsense as possible. That does not
make these things correct if browsers accept them.

Michael