On Tue, 28 Oct 2008 16:01:33 -0400, Ian Hickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Tue, 30 Jan 2007, Shadow2531 wrote:
<http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-forms/current-work/#for-mailto>
<http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-forms/current-work/#x-www-form-urlencoded>
(#4)
In mailto URIs, %20 represents a space.
<form action="mailto:";>
<input name="subject" value="1 2">
<input type="submit">
</form>
If you submit that form, "mailto:?subject=1+2"; will be passed to the
mail client instead of "mailto:?subject=1%202";. This results in "1+2"
in the subject field instead of "1 2".
Are UAs allowed to use %20 instead so things come out right, or must
mail clients decode + to a space? Thunderbird, M2, and Outlook express
don't decode +s.
RFC2368 is referenced, but it and application/x-www-form-urlencoded
that the mailto: form methods are referenced under conflict with each
other on whether a space should be encoded to %20 or +.
Fixed in the HTML5 spec. Thanks.
Awesome! Thanks.
Question though.
What about the method="POST" case where the query string is kept?
For example:
<form action="mailto:?subject=1+2"; method="POST">
<input type="text" name="body" value="1+2">
<input type="text" name="other" value="1 2">
<input type="submit">
</form>
When submitting that, I expect to see:
mailto:?subject=1%2B2&body=body%3D1%252B2%26other%3D1%25202
submitted to the mail client.
The current POST section seems to say that this would be submitted instead:
mailto:?subject=1+2&body=body%3D1%252B2%26other%3D1+2
In other words, I think spaces in values should be emitted as %20 for POST
too and in the case there's a query string present in the action attribute
for POST, any + in the hvalues of the query string should be normalized to
%2B (to be consistent with a + inside a form control's value that gets
converted to %2B)
Also, for POST only, if there isn't a subject hvalue specified in the
action attribute, Firefox will append subject=Form%20Post%20from%20Firefox
so that "Form Post from Firefox" ends up in the mail client's subject
field. Do you think "Form Post from UA" should be specified?
--
Michael
